On 6/27/16 1:15 PM, Pierre Gaston wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:17 PM, konsolebox <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Chet Ramey <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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?
> >
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> 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.
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> --
> konsolebox
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> Chet is one of these people ;)
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-04/msg00040.html
Not wrong because it's undocumented. At the time, I said it was a bad idea
because it didn't integrate well with other parts of the shell (like unset)
that require valid identifiers as arguments. I'm not going to remove the
feature.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
