From: Robert Peirce <bob@...>
Date: 2004-03-05T09:50:09+09:00
Subject: More alias problems

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I am missing something important about aliases.  I mentioned the "alias=20=

:cmd :`" problem before.  I also have a problem with this:

$ cat tst2
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

class Fixnum
         alias plus +
end

puts "#{2 + 5}"			--> 7

puts "#{2.plus(5)}"		--> 7

puts "#{2.plus 5}"		--> 7

# puts "#{2 plus 5}"		--> ERROR

Clearly, plus is not an exact alias for '+' , just as :cmd is not the=20
same as :`.  Is it that ruby aliases are not the same as shell aliases?


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