Re: Return from function depending on number of parameters

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On 04/07/2020 04.39, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> It might tell you something that $[...] is not even mentioned in
> the man page for bash 3.2.57, which is decidedly not the current
> version.

About that, is it for sure that $[] is going to be obsoleted/removed in
the future? I happened to use it recently, and thought it was more
readable than $(()) and caused less visual clutter. Any reason $(()) was
preferred?

Peter

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