Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!AI.MIT.EDU!tmb From: tmb@AI.MIT.EDU (Thomas M. Breuel) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: exportable functions Message-ID: <8909080854.AA12325@rice-chex> Date: 8 Sep 89 08:54:05 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 6 It would be nice if Bash supported exportable functions like V9 "sh". Strings of the form "name=value" in the environment are considered environment variables, and strings of the form "name(){value}" are considered environment functions. Thomas.