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 -- Marc Chantreux Pôle CESAR (Calcul et services avancés à la recherche) Université de Strasbourg 14 rue René Descartes, BP 80010, 67084 STRASBOURG CEDEX 03.68.85.60.79