Re: Documentation issue

[Clark Wang]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> wrote:

>
> I already said why `unset` is different.  If it wasn't clear, a direct
> example is the fact that `delete` in javascript is a special syntax
> rather than a function.  To make it more confusing, the other obvious
> place where an lvalue appears (left of a =), is special in bash for
> other reasons, but it does make it easier to assume that `unset` is
> special.
>

What `unset' does is special but there's nothing special when parsing the
command and bash even does not care if it's built-in command or not.