On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:16 PM, <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote: ... > So I propose we 'wreck the language' to allow me to do > $ read @ > to set $@, same with 1, 2,.. * (almost the same as @). >
Since you can use "read -a arr" to set arr[1] arr[2] ...etc it's not that interesting Setting the positional parameters is really only useful as tricks in shells that don't have function local variables or arrays.
