On 9/27/14, 10:03 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> Yes, it's an application requirement. Regardless, all the versions of bash >> we're talking about here reject non-identifiers. > > I'm still trying to find that line in the actual POSIX spec.
"The function is named fname; the application shall ensure that it is a name (see XBD Name) and that it is not the name of a special built-in utility." http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_05 > -- ``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/
