> > It would be more obvious if it had a paragraph directly below
> > ${parameter} saying something like:
> >
> > ${!name}
> > Indirect expansion. name is expanded to produce the name of a
> > variable to expand.
>
> i imagine Chet takes patches
I do, but the proposed text is misleading and incorrect. Since indirect
expansion is available for the `parameter' part of every other substitution,
it's inappropriate to present it as a standalone expansion like this. That's
why it appears where it does.
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