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>>>>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
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>> It may be little known, but strictly speaking, hyphens in bash |
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>> identifiers are illegal: |
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>> `name' A `word' consisting solely of letters, numbers, and |
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>> underscores, and beginning with a letter or underscore. `Name's are |
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>> used as shell variable and function names. Also referred to as an |
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>> `identifier'. |
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> That looks wrong for all kinds of reasons and it is directly |
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> contradicted in the same document and in the source code. |
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Sure, the implementation is so sloppy that it would even allow |
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^+-=[*]{@}:,./?%!!!11eleven!! as the name of a function. Which doesn't |
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imply that we should use such undocumented features in our code. |
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Ulrich |
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