From the manual:
Shell Function Definitions
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name () compound-command [redirection]
function name [()] compound-command [redirection]
name
is defined elsewhere:
name A word consisting only of alphanumeric characters and under‐
scores, and beginning with an alphabetic character or an under‐
score. Also referred to as an identifier.
So hyphens are not valid. And yet, on my system, they do work…
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)