Re: dot in variable name

[Eric Peterson]

> On 14 May 2020, at 10:02, Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 5/14/20 12:03 PM, Eric Peterson via wrote:
>> 
>> I remember reading about variable names containing dots (i.e.  tax.amount).  
>> Some sort of namespace of variables. 
> 
> Bash has never allowed dots in variable names. ksh93 introduced dots as a
> kind of namespace delimiter.
> 
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    address@hidden    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/


It must have been ksh93 webpages I saw and got confused.   Looks like an 
interesting idea but I guess to no avail. :). I'll just use underscore to group 
logical variables together, i.e.,

tax_amount
tax_rate
etc...


Eric