hello Eric,

On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 10:43:39AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> The Austin Group has been asked whether future POSIX should include
> the sponge(1) utility

thanks for sharing this very good news. I didn't know about the Austin
Group either so you made my day.

do you know a way to file a request to them? I really would like to
suggest the behavior of most of the shells to be adopted as a POSIX
behavior: no need to write a counpound expression expression to declare
a function so

ll() ls -l "$@"

would be the same as

ll() { ls -l "$@" }

so maybe people would stop using alias to to such things and then
complain when they discover they don't understand what alias is like in

assert() {
        echo "I will $*"
        "$@"
}

which fails with aliases

regards
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