Re: Issues with exported functions

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/27/14, 8:06 AM, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> I agree it would be MUCH better to append () to the "variable" name if it is 
> a function export.  If that suffix can be included in the official bash 
> release, I would be delighted.
> 
> There had been earlier claims that () might fail on old systems, but I have 
> not seen evidence of it. I do not have access to really old systens to 
> test... if anyone does that would be helpful.  At this point it might be best 
> to focus on protecting current systems.

It fails on current systems, including Red Hat.  It looks like there are
still things to clean up.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147043

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