Forums Feature Suggestions Local aliases

qwerty:
Well, your example is an use of the suggested feature, but I could simply want it to organize many parts of my code.

General reply:
Is this really worth it? I mean, I think it's a good idea and would use it a lot, but do we need it? We don't. Maybe many wouldn't get even close to "need" it.
But I believe that anyone who answered this question would also point a lot of features that aren't really needed, but improve a job, and I think the same point could be applied here.

For example, /var sets local variables, but we could use the undocumented /set -l or the documented /set -u. Granted, /var accepts a list of local variables, but since it isn't capable of setting a list of global variables as well, I assume it's prior feature is setting local variables. So it's an improvement, but not really needed.

I know this suggestion is much less needed when comparing to /var's improvement, but it still improves something, even if a little. And maybe it could bring room to more improvement in the future.

So, IMO, its value/worth only depends on its difficulty to be developed by Khaled.

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It wouldn't necessarily need to be declared with "alias". It could be "lalias", "local", "whatever", then from that point the given name would prior the feature. Meaning you couldn't have an alias called "local" or "whatever" (that could still break some scripts, but ctrl+f+replace would be the finest solution) and also that the parser would treat it differently. I don't know the consequences of this, if it'd slow down parsing etc. but then again only Khaled could know and decide if it's worth it.