Re: BASH_SUBSHELL documentation misleading

[Clark J. Wang]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 06:07:33PM +0000, Marc Herbert wrote:
> > Not every feature is complicated enough that it requires special
> > documentation care and that it raises a discussion here.
>
> BASH_SUBSHELL isn't complicated at all.  It's just documented in a
> confusing way.  It doesn't require an example to say that it reports the
> current subshell depth.  It's just that the existing documentation
> can be interpreted to make someone think that it tracks a running total
> of how many subshells were created as children of the current shell in
> the past.  That's where Sam got mixed up.
>
>
Agree. It's not complicated compared to, for example,  =~ usage. :)

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Clark J. Wang