On 5/5/11 6:29 PM, Sven Mascheck wrote:
> 4.4BSD alpha '92 suddenly documented it,
> "...braces, which are optional except for positional parameters
> with more than one digit..."
> http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/44bsdalpha.1.html
> but interestingly had not implemented anything like that. And nothing
> changed in later Berkeley variants.
It was documented simultaneously with the release of Posix 1003.2-1992,
I imagine.
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