On 9/23/25 8:32 AM, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
Sure, it is documented, but where? In a section far away from the example, where a novice will never look if not prodded by a NB like in the suggested wording. Then they will file bugs like <https://bugs.debian.org/115290>.
I think the thing to do here is to change the example to make it
clearer that the value assigned (the example in the man page) need
not be the same as the value on the rhs of the assignment statement.
I think that's what's being missed.
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