Documentation issue

[Eli Barzilay]

Bash surprised me with the behavior mentioned here:

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15897473

This can be pretty bad in that it's very unexpected (see the comments).
Also, the surprise can be triggered without nullglob as well:

    $ foo=(a b c)
    $ touch foo0
    $ unset foo[0]
    $ echo ${foo[*]}
    a b c

The thing is that AFAICT, there is no mention of this pitfall in the man
page...  It would be nice to mention using quotes in at least the
`unset` description, and possibly also about `nullglob` too since it
makes it easier to run into this problem.

I grepped through the bash sources, and even there I found a few unsafe
uses:

    grep -r 'unset[^a-z"'\'']*\[' examples tests

so this is clearly something that is not well-known enough.

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