Jan Schampera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephane Chazelas wrote: >> Note that bash didn't have to. POSIX allows a shell to accept >> any character in a function name, but it says one shouldn't use >> those in a POSIX script, which is different. > > I'm not a POSIX expert, and this is the SUS, but I read: > > | The format of a function definition command is as follows: > | fname() compound-command[io-redirect ...] > | The function is named fname; the application shall ensure that it is a > | name (see the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section > | 3.230, Name).
"The application" is the script, not the shell, so this is consistent with Stephane's statement. paul
