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	I don't think that's a good reason to discourage implementing stepped alpha brace ranges here – they seem a good idea, and we do have that reference – but I wondered (idly) if anyone has actually seen stepped alpha expansions work in the wild (where ''wild'' is defined as a shell prompt or shell script). [[User:Hout\|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout\|talk]]) 17:57, 26 August 2020 (UTC)		I don't think that's a good reason to discourage implementing stepped alpha brace ranges here – they seem a good idea, and we do have that reference – but I wondered (idly) if anyone has actually seen stepped alpha expansions work in the wild (where ''wild'' is defined as a shell prompt or shell script). [[User:Hout\|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout\|talk]]) 17:57, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

			: Ah. Got it. It's because the macOS Catalina distribution of Bash turns out to be 3.2, rather than 4. [[User:Hout\|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout\|talk]]) 18:06, 26 August 2020 (UTC)