Re: BASH_SUBSHELL documentation misleading

[Marc Herbert]

Le 24/03/2011 14:50, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 02:33:19PM +0000, Marc Herbert wrote:
>> I would also like to see this example in the documentation:
>>
>> $ ( echo sub-$BASH_SUBSHELL ); echo main-$BASH_SUBSHELL
>> sub-1
>> main-0
> 
> Overkill.

Tradeoff.

> Most of the other features in the manual do not have such
> examples, and if we added examples of this size for every single feature,
> the manual would swell up to a tremendous size.  It's already quite large.

Not every feature is complicated enough that it requires special
documentation care and that it raises a discussion here.