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.

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