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

[konsolebox]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Pierre Gaston <pierre.gaston@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:17 PM, konsolebox <konsolebox@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>> > On 6/27/16 3:11 AM, konsolebox wrote:
>> >> Hi, I think it's time that we officially specify in the manual of Bash
>> >> that we allow other characters besides [[:alnum:]_] when declaring
>> >> function names in non-POSIX mode.
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>> > Is there some new reason to do this now?
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>> Not really, but sometimes I encounter people saying such practice of
>> using characters besides those allowed by POSIX is wrong simply
>> because it is undocumented.  I just thought about making a suggestion
>> today, and hope that it gets updated before 4.4.
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>> konsolebox
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> 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.

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konsolebox