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

[konsolebox]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Pierre Gaston <pierre.gaston@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Pierre Gaston <pierre.gaston@gmail.com>
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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
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> Maybe it's possible to explicitly allow, if not all, some characters  for
> instance one of the rare bash style guide out there:
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> https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml#Function_Names
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> suggest using :: for separating library names

I considered :: as well back then, but it looks messy.  I prefer a dot.

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