On 9/27/14, 8:06 AM, David A. Wheeler wrote: > I agree it would be MUCH better to append () to the "variable" name if it is > a function export. If that suffix can be included in the official bash > release, I would be delighted. > > There had been earlier claims that () might fail on old systems, but I have > not seen evidence of it. I do not have access to really old systens to > test... if anyone does that would be helpful. At this point it might be best > to focus on protecting current systems.
It fails on current systems, including Red Hat. It looks like there are still things to clean up. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147043 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
