On Tue, 11 Mar 2025, 00:54 John Wiersba via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell, <bug-bash@gnu.org> wrote:
> The alternative is to have people, like me, stumbling on this > undocumented syntax and spending a considerable amount of time trying to > explore what it is and why it is undocumented. Hah! That's how everyone worked back when Bash version 2 was "new", even for stuff that was (and still is) supported. Chet: if you don't intend to remove this extension, please make that commitment in writing in the documentation. -Martin
