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Re:Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp by kazinator on Sunday July 15, 2018 @09:35PM (#17538149)
POSIX shell is dual-namespace, OTOH.

A variable foo, referenced as $foo, has nothing do with a function foo called as "foo args ...".

Imagine how stupid it would be if assigning a variable called ls prevented the ls command from working.

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