Re: Minor mistake in Bash manual

2019-03-12 Thread Todd Lehman
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Chet Ramey wrote: On 3/11/19 4:55 PM, Todd Lehman wrote: Hi! In the version dated 2019-Jan-07, I noticed the following mistake in the GNU Bash manual: | Associative arrays are created using | declare -A name. The period (".") after "name" should not

Re: Minor mistake in Bash manual

2019-03-11 Thread Todd Lehman
On Mar 11, 2019, at 11:03 PM, Robert Elz wrote: > No, it was fine, I understood the context OK - it is just that this > is one of those rock and hard place situations - the places where > there is no period to end a sentence can just as easily be argued > to be incorrect. I would argue that reada

Re: Minor mistake in Bash manual

2019-03-11 Thread Todd Lehman
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Robert Elz wrote: | The period (".") after "name" should not be there. Yet, the rules of grammar say it must be, as that is the end of the sentence. Ah. Maybe my initial e-mail wasn't clear. The second line is was actual code sample. It's formatted as verbatim, monosp

Minor mistake in Bash manual

2019-03-11 Thread Todd Lehman
Hi! In the version dated 2019-Jan-07, I noticed the following mistake in the GNU Bash manual: | Associative arrays are created using | declare -A name. The period (".") after "name" should not be there. --Todd