Re: Officially document that we allow other characters in function names

[konsolebox]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 6/27/16 1:56 PM, konsolebox wrote:
>
>>> Chet is one of these people ;)
>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-04/msg00040.html
>>
>> Well it wasn't a mistake for me.  At least I find the characters  '.'
>> and '?' (and maybe '!' as well) helpful.
>
> You just have to be careful that `?' doesn't conflict with globbing
> and `!' with history expansion.
>

Yes, I only use such forms of function names in bigger bash script
applications, and certainly not in an interactive shell.  I also
disable globbing there when I use '?'.  I've become a fan of
Ruby-style function names.

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konsolebox