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Re: Valid characters for function names
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Valid characters for function names |
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Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:39:11 -0500 |
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On 11/25/19 9:41 AM, Reuti wrote:
Hi,
I got a script using foo++() as function name, and at first I was confused
of a different behavior between bash 4.2, 4.4 and 5.0. After crawling some
mailing lists whether this is allowed at all, I found this post:
This was covered semi-exhaustively in a thread starting at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00158.html
I implemented the suggestion to treat non-identifiers as strictly function
names in June.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU address@hidden http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/