On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM Moumita <dhar61595@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The modifications that I made were -
> "^[ \t]*([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)[ \t]*\\([ \t]*\\)[ \t]*" - so that is allows foo() and foo ( ).
> "^[ \t]*([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)[ \t]*\\([ \t]*\\)[ \t]*(\\{|\\(|\\[\\[)" - so that it recognises {, (, or [[ as function bodies
Regarding this last point, for completeness, I had meant to respond to
j6t's review of your patch by saying that, according to POSIX, a
function body can be any compound command, which means the body does
not need to be encased in braces. For instance, this works:
$ foo() echo nothing
$ foo
nothing
$
That said, I doubt that this usage is common, thus is probably not
worth worrying about.
