[oguz-ismail]

Aliases are like C macros

    $ alias foo='seq 3 | '
    $ foo cat
    1
    2
    3

Functions are functions

[RhysU]

So then use $variables for evil syntactic tricks? That works everywhere. Functions where hygiene counts? Aliases never?

[oguz-ismail]

>use $variables for evil syntactic tricks

Can't do that without eval, which is another can of worms. Aliases are fine