Problem with bash: alias command

[Fulko Hew]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash.
>
> My problem: suppose you define an alias:
>
> alias x='echo PAR=$1'
>
> Now call the alias by:
>
> x 1
>
> Output: PAR= 1
>
> My question: why do I get the blank before the "1"?
>
> All comments are welcome.

I have no idea as to why (personally I would think its 'not as right
as it could/should be'),
but I just checked my F8 system, and it behaves the same way.  My
'really' old UNIX
system is down right now, so I can't check to see what it does.