Re: Valid characters for function names

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/25/19 12:02 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> 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 [...]
>
> You can do some fun stuff with function names, which seems fair since
> you can also do fun stuff with disk filenames in /usr/bin

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00171.html

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