> But in general, no, there's probably not a lot of use for it, but nor > is there any particular reason to add special case code to prohibit > it.
I was thinking, most languages have names for functions and such, but sh is one of the few languages in which a zero-length routine name is even representible, so it's not surprising that most languages don't have them. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B