[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 Integration Update 1 Amendments 1 [PSARC/2008/344 FastTrack timeout 06/03/2008]

[John Plocher]

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