How to pass command line arguments to a shell alias? [duplicate]

Question

How do I pass the command line arguments to an alias? Here is a sample:

 alias mkcd='mkdir $1; cd $1;' 

But in this case the $xx is getting translated at the alias creating time and not at runtime. I have, however, created a workaround using a shell function (after googling a little) like below:

 function mkcd(){   mkdir $1   cd $1 } 

Just wanted to know if there is a way to make aliases that accept CL parameters.
BTW - I use 'bash' as my default shell.

Answer 1

Just to reiterate what has been posted for other shells, in Bash the following works:

alias blah='function _blah(){ echo "First: $1"; echo "Second: $2"; };_blah' 

Running the following:

blah one two 

Gives the output below:

First: one Second: two