Re: status on $[arith] for eval arith vsl $((arith))??

[Linda Walsh]

Maarten Billemont wrote:

> Any particular reason for not removing old undocumented functionality,


or is that mostly the nature of this beast - dragging along and maintaining


ancient code for the sake of compatibility?


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So 'yesturday' is "ancient" for you?... that's really means something.

In doing a scan over my /usr partition,
I see MANY examples in bash 4.1 in it's examples of using $[] -- I would hardly 
call 4.1 "ancient".


Other packages that make use of the syntax:

* wondershaper
* cifs file system
* alsa (sound)
* fonts-config   (this is a new project within the past few years)
* QT4
* GoogleBrowser (chromium)
* RPM
* YP
* PM Utils
* RPMrebuild
* iproute2 (almost all modern internet functions on linux)...
* dhcp-client
- (zsh -- not a real example, but might become alternate system shell if bash
 killed $[] support)
* Opera - ? (has comment "TODO use $(()) instead of $[] whenever possible;...) 
"whenever possible??"
* samba
   and a HUGE number in
** linux-kernel -- all over the place...

At that point, I was getting too many to keep up with ... so I stopped 
searching...

$[] has is -- I would bet, Universally, used MORE than $(())...

Chet -- you should get back to the posix folks and tell them posix is to be 
'descriptive of usage' (their words), not prescriptive.   Just because ksh did 
it differently from everyone else's usage doesn't mean they should go with that
syntax...

Geez.