On 10/26/17 10:50 PM, Clark Wang wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 3:00 AM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's more of a general statement about arrays, though it appears in
>>> the paragraph that discusses unset, so it's in the man page section on
>>> arrays. You have to be careful about putting the same information in
>>> too many different places -- the man page is big enough already.
>>
>> I'm very aware of man page bloat and the fact that the bash page is very
>> long as is. But (a) I think that the builtin section for each command
>> is the more important place for such things; and (b) what I'm suggesting
>> is just a short reminder sentence about the need for quoting unsets for
>> array elements.
>>
>> To make it more concrete, I think that the following change will be
>> good:
>>
>> 1. Drop the current "Care must be taken ... the entire array." two
>> sentences and replace them with some "See the unset builtin
>> description below".
>>
>
> It's not only about unset. You also need to take care of other builtin
> commands:
Let's see if I can find some compromise language that will take care
of the general case. Since it's a compromise, no one will be satisfied,
of course.
--
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
