On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:17 PM, konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > Chet is one of these people ;) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-04/msg00040.html