On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@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. :) -- Clark J. Wang
