On 10/16/19 1:34 PM, Rocky Bernstein wrote:
> Current in bash 5.0 and earlier, the value of BASH_REMATCH might chanted
> inside a debug hook.
> 
> Since BASH_REMATCH is read-only, resetting the value on hook return to the
> debugged program is a bit tricky and fragile...

How about we just make it not read-only? The shell will still set it when
it does regexp matching.

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