On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:25, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:17, Tim Wright wrote:
> > <rant>
> > </rant>
>
> To some observers, this point of this rant might be lost, but this
> clarification might help :-
>
> "depreciation" is a formal process, often found in the evolution of open
> standards (including things like Linux, both the kernel and the various
> distributions). By people who write software, "depreciation" is a
> precise technical term, not an opinion.
As in
The format for arithmetic expansion is:
$((expression))
The old format $[expression] is deprecated and will be removed
in upcoming versions of bash.
which I was surprised to read in the Bash man-page, just below the
section Tim quoted :)
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