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