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"Aliases (called nicks in rsh)" Just, why? Everything else calls them aliases. Everyone knows what an alias is. Is this something that works differently and s
by jacknews 3y ago
"Aliases (called nicks in rsh)"
Just, why? Everything else calls them aliases. Everyone knows what an alias is.
Is this something that works differently and so needs a different name?
If 'alias' was a badly chosen 'standard', then there's a case to try to change it, but 'alias' seems to be quite precise and fitting to me.
- jeremymcanally 3y agoProbably because “alias” is a keyword in Ruby.
- jacknews 3y agoSure, and it means exactly what you expect it to mean in ruby (though tinged with 'bad idea', in the case of aliasing variable names), so that's even more reason to use it (find a way to mesh with irb or whatever they're using as 'backend'). It's 'ruby shell' after all.