On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Pierre Gaston <pierre.gas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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
Well it wasn't a mistake for me. At least I find the characters '.' and '?' (and maybe '!' as well) helpful. -- konsolebox
