On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 11:38 AM Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > What would you say the "suggested improvement" is here? > > This is implied. If it is agreed that identical function names are not > good by the majority of bash developers, then what I found could be > turned into an explicit suggestion. > > Since maybe there is a good reason, I don't want to pretend that I > knew why it was designed in this way. > > So far I don't see a good reason. So I want to confirm it first. > > Or this problem has never been noted before (I don't think it is very > likely, given bash has been been developed for a long time). Then, it > worth a discussion.
What is the problem EXACTLY though? GNU Bash and GNU Readline are two different code bases. Bash depends on Readline, and thus, includes the code tree in a subfolder. It makes sense that there are similar functions for similar functionality in two different code bases, specially when the author/maintainer is the same person.
