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Re: Evaluation of $# - bug?

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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Evaluation of $# - bug?
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:04:07 +0000
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} Sven wrote:
} > Use `${#}-1'.

Or even `$# -1', if you're performing arithmetic rather than concatenation.

On Dec 4, 11:57am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} 
} +sequence `tt($#-)var(...)' in an arithmetic expression is interpreted as

Whether it's in an arithmetic expression is immaterial, isn't it?

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- Re: Evaluation of $# - bug?
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