Re: Context sensitivity of the word "parameter" in the section of "Parameter Expansion"

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Sun, May 9, 2021, at 5:28 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> On 5/9/21, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On 5/9/21 2:51 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> >> My point is the manual is not clear. It is not how to make it work in this
> >> case.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you want here. This has nothing to do with Parameter
> > Expansion, and the HISTORY EXPANSION section of the bash manual notes that:
> 
> Since history expansion how parameter expansion is interpreted. I'd
> say it is not "has nothing to do". The manual can be made clear on
> this interference in the Parameter Expansion section.

By virtue of modifying the input stream, history expansion has an
effect on literally everything else that occurs subsequently, such
as arithmetic substitution and pathname expansion.  Should every
single section of the manual warn about history expansion?

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