Re: bug: illegal function name?

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/20/19 10:56 PM, pepa65 wrote:
> On 20/1/2019 19:50, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
>> Changing the behavior of `unset f' to only ever unset variables means
>> potentially breaking existing scripts. Is the inconsistency reported severe
>> enough to make this change?
> 
> The alternative would be to allow anything (that is not a proper
> variable name) after unset, and if it can't be a variable name, only the
> functions need to be checked and unset if they exist.

This is reasonable to look at for a future version.

Chet
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