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Re: Question on periods in function names
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Question on periods in function names |
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Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:26:07 -0500 |
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On 1/5/13 9:11 AM, muji wrote:
> Hello!
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> According to this:
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> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/gotchas.html
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> As of version 3 periods in function names are not allowed, I quote:
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> # As of version 3 of Bash, periods are not allowed within function names.
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> Yet I am using:
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> GNU bash, version 4.2.0(1)-release (i386-apple-darwin10.8.0)
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> And I can use periods in function names without any problems.
It works by default, but not when bash is running in posix mode. I don't
have any plans to change this.
Chet
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