On 1/20/19 10:46 AM, Andrey Butirsky wrote:
> `1' is not a valid identifier, still:
> $ function 1 () { :; }
> bash: `1': not a valid identifier
> 
> So that is pretty messy..

In posix mode, bash restricts function names to be valid shell identifiers,
as the standard specifies.

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