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How would an alias work otherwise? That's pretty much the way it behaves in Unix, too (e.g. 'ls' in most default configs). Although I'd still consider curl/wge
by mhd 10y ago
How would an alias work otherwise? That's pretty much the way it behaves in Unix, too (e.g. 'ls' in most default configs).
Although I'd still consider curl/wget to be specific tools and not generic commands, so emulating them seems a bit weird.
- SloopJon 10y agoThe point is that they're defined by default. See this story for more background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12319670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12319670 Edit: the RFC intended to address the curl author's issue was rejected. https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/blob/master/X-Rejected/RFC0007-Weak-Aliases.md https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/blob/master/X-R...
- emodendroket 10y agoYeah, because it would represent a breaking change.