On 5/8/24 3:45 AM, Koichi Murase wrote:

As an alternative option, is it possible that the `.' builtin follows
POSIX while the `source' builtin has the extension of
BASH_SOURCE_PATH? I don't have a particular preference here, but I'm
just curious about if there is a reason or motivation that the
`source' builtin should also follow POSIX.

Because `.' and `source' have always been equivalent, and it will take a
better reason than this to change that.

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