syntax error in a script

[M.W. Chang]

forget it. it's a bash problem. version 1.14 doesn't support it.

M.W. Chang wrote:

> what's wrong with the following line? when executed, it produced a 
> syntax error:
> 
> ## parse params
> P=( "$@" ); n=0; DIROUT="."; FILEOUT=""

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