On 8/15/18 7:16 PM, Robert Elz wrote: > That is, they existed as a way for a script to write out all the positional > parameters one after another, without knowing how many there were. > > With that view, how they should work has never been even slightly > confusing. But perhaps others learned about them differently.
The austin-group-l discussion from October, 2014 is illuminating, if you can find it. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/