Re: [PATCH] Clarify documentation of parameter-assignment behaviour

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:56 PM dana <dana@dana.is> wrote:
>
> Considering huge portions of the manual are dedicated to explaining the most
> fundamental aspects of shell functionality (how commands are resolved, how to
> redirect files, what a pipe-line is, &c.), and AFAICT it's been that way since i
> was a child, it kind of seems like that assumption went out the window a pretty
> long time ago

Some of those things are different in zsh, and some of the differences
can't be explained in isolation.  You can't explain how a while-loop
or an if-else differs from csh without explaining concepts like "list"
and "sublist", even though a bash user probably knows.  You have to at
least enumerate all redirection syntax if you're going to add
explanation of file descriptor duplication and process substitution.

But yes, extra details have been coming in for a long time.  I meant
to encourage some sort of agreement on when enough is enough, but
maybe that's impossible (to know, not to agree on).