Anonymous functions in shell scripts

Question

Is it possible to create something analogous to an anonymous function whose value can be assigned to an array element and later called? I can\'t seem to find a way to do thi

Answer 1

The common technique is to assign function definitions conditionally:

#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
a) foo() { echo case a; };;
b) foo() { echo case b; };;
*) foo() { echo default; } ;;
esac

foo