On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 6/27/16 3:11 AM, konsolebox wrote: >> Hi, I think it's time that we officially specify in the manual of Bash >> that we allow other characters besides [[:alnum:]_] when declaring >> function names in non-POSIX mode. > > Is there some new reason to do this now? >
Not really, but sometimes I encounter people saying such practice of using characters besides those allowed by POSIX is wrong simply because it is undocumented. I just thought about making a suggestion today, and hope that it gets updated before 4.4. -- konsolebox
