Re: RFE? request for an "undefined" attribute for functions

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 06:10:31PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I had(have) several functions that I don't use on a regular basis (rarely), 
> that
> I had put into a subdir "func_lib" under my local-definitions directory.
> This came from ksh, which allows you to define functions with an "undef" 
> attribute,
> and at runtime, the first time these functions were referenced,

(You lost some words here.)

> Is this something that might have been considered for bash?  It seems like it
> could have some usefulness?

There is a command_not_found_handle in bash 4.  You could define it to
look for functions in your directory.