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Note there is one possibly important difference; aliases are resolved before globbing.

• chubot 5y ago
  Hm what's an example of where you might want to take advantage of that? In practice alias 'lspy=ls *.py' seems to be interchangeable with lspy() { ls *.py "$@" }
  • emmelaich 5y ago
    I have a semi-made desk calculator with prefix notation. You can make it an alias of * , / etc, so ... $ * 4 6 24 $ It would keep it's own stack, but let a persistent process do the actual maths. The persistent process could almost any repl of python, ruby etc. Or use a 'real' calculator like Pike's ivy; https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Ivy https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Ivy
    • emmelaich 5y ago
      Unfortunately, ( is not a valid alias name, so lispy things are difficult. [ is a valid function name tho so fun could be had there.
    • emmelaich 5y ago
      Also = is a valid function name. So you could use = to start the calc, and use infix or postfix notation.
• abathur 5y ago
  You can do some wild ~metaprogramming stuff with aliases.
  • jolmg 5y ago
    Do you have examples of something neat?