I. Szczesniak wrote:
> It was always good practice to avoid C language keywords in shell
> scripts. Quoting the Opensolaris programming style guide:
> Do not use function names which are reserved keywords (or function
> names) in C/C++/JAVA or the POSIX shell standard (to avoid confusion
> and/or future changes/updates to the shell language).


And that may be good enough to serve as the last word on this topic :-)

   -John

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