On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Pierre Gaston <pierre.gas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:17 PM, konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@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. >> > >> > Is there some new reason to do this now? >> > >> >> 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. >> >> -- >> konsolebox >> >> Chet is one of these people ;) > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-04/msg00040.html > Maybe it's possible to explicitly allow, if not all, some characters for instance one of the rare bash style guide out there: https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml#Function_Names suggest using :: for separating library names
