commit bash-20161122 snapshot

doc/bash.1

@@ -2794,7 +2794,8 @@ Any incorrectly formed brace expansion is left unchanged.
 A \fB{\fP or \fB,\fP may be quoted with a backslash to prevent its
 being considered part of a brace expression.
 To avoid conflicts with parameter expansion, the string \fB${\fP
-is not considered eligible for brace expansion.
+is not considered eligible for brace expansion, and inhibits brace
+expansion until the closing \fB}\fP.
 .PP
 This construct is typically used as shorthand when the common
 prefix of the strings to be generated is longer than in the

doc/bashref.texi

@@ -1766,7 +1766,8 @@ in the result.  It is strictly textual.  Bash
 does not apply any syntactic interpretation to the context of the
 expansion or the text between the braces.
 To avoid conflicts with parameter expansion, the string @samp{$@{}
-is not considered eligible for brace expansion.
+is not considered eligible for brace expansion,
+and inhibits brace expansion until the closing @samp{@}}..
 
 A correctly-formed brace expansion must contain unquoted opening
 and closing braces, and at least one unquoted comma or a valid