Re: Return from function depending on number of parameters

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Return from function depending on number of parameters
Date	2020-07-10 09:19 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 7/10/20 5:14 AM, Chris Elvidge wrote:

> Are the two uses (array subscript and arithmetic context) of [...]
> connected/related? Or am I (stupidly) seeing a connection where none really
> exists?

No doubt they resemble each other, since the bounding characters are the
same and the contents are treated as an arithmetic expression that returns
a value.

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