The bulk of the array declaration examples do not have a period at the end,
making http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/doc/bashref.texi#n7190
a needlessly confusing example. I'd like to propose removing the period at
the end:
--- bashref.texi 2019-02-21 09:10:12.000000000 -0500
+++ bashref.texi.new 2019-02-21 09:10:49.679101000 -0500
@@ -7187,7 +7187,7 @@
@noindent
Associative arrays are created using
@example
-declare -A @var{name}.
+declare -A @var{name}
@end example
Attributes may be
-jeff
