On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:03:52 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> It may be little known, but strictly speaking, hyphens in bash
> identifiers are illegal:
> 
> `name'
>      A `word' consisting solely of letters, numbers, and underscores,
>      and beginning with a letter or underscore.  `Name's are used as
>      shell variable and function names.  Also referred to as an
>      `identifier'.

That looks wrong for all kinds of reasons and it is directly
contradicted in the same document and in the source code.

But we digress... :)


Regards,
     jer

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