What's more horrible about it is that the simpler sh constructs are somehow not respected in bash culture. In sh, each function has a local array, and you use

What's more horrible about it is that the simpler sh constructs are somehow not respected in bash culture. In sh, each function has a local array, and you use that array with "$@". And typically you can get along with only that array. Not so bad. my_b() { somefunc foo "$@" bar }