Limiting the scope of a function in bash.

What I want to do is to create a script file that defines a couple of functions, but only allows access to the ones I want to give up. As in, I want to specify "static" on my function.

Is this possible? I looked around and couldn't find much on google, but I don't know if I've tried the correct search words:

narrow scope function bash
limit scope function bash
bash function scope

is what I've tried.

Thanks in advance,
Kennedy

I don't think bash supports "static" functions. There's a convention for functions you want to be made local to the script; You just prefix them with an underscore. But they can still be called out. It's just that the user knows they are calling a function that wasn't meant to be called from outside the script.

I didn't think I could limit the scope. One can dream. . .

No one correct me so far, so I'll correct myself: The convention is a double underscore. Not a single one.