On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Pierre Gaston <pierre.gas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 8:15 PM, 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 > > > Maybe it's possible to explicitly allow, if not all, some characters for > instance one of the rare bash style guide out there: > > https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml#Function_Names > > suggest using :: for separating library names
I considered :: as well back then, but it looks messy. I prefer a dot. -- konsolebox
