On Saturday, February 05, 2011 10:16:16 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> No, they aren't. They are just macros which are expanded to a big-fat
> unreable shellscript w/o any functions.

once again you show that you dont follow the projects you spend time 
criticizing.  autoconf has for quite some time now required shells to support 
functions since it generates code that uses functions.
-mike