For now the `declare' command is under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS in the man
page so people may think bash parses the command line parameters the same
way as other built-in commands which is not true.
[STEP 100] # echo $BASH_VERSION
4.4.12(4)-release
[STEP 101] # declare -a arr=()
[STEP 102] # echo declare -a arr=()
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
[STEP 103] #
It seems to me bash internally parses the `declare' command specially and
(logically) convert `declare -a arr=()' to two statements `declare -a arr'
and `arr=()'.
So does it make sense to move `declare' out of the SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS
and put it in a separate section? Or at least explicitly state that
`declare' is special?
-clark
