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@@ -53367,6 +53367,23 @@ of these version values, the described behaviors are provided if is given an argument which is equal or lower. For instance .code "-C 103" selects the behaviors described below for version 105, but not those for 102. +.IP 174 +A value of 174 or lower restores a previous behavior of variable substitution +in the +.code output +directive and in quasiliterals in both the \*(TX pattern language and \*(TL. +The behavior in question is the evaluation of the element indexing or +range selection modifier, exemplified by +.codn "@{a [2]}" . +The previous behavior was that if the variable is of any type other +than list, it is converted to a string (unless it already is one). +The indexing then applies to the string. If it is a list then the +indexing or range selection applies to the original list value, +prior to conversion to text. The current behavior is that indexing +and range selection is applied to the original value if that value +is any sequence type which satisfies the +.code seqp +function, otherwise to the string representation. .IP 172 A value of 172 or lower restores a behavior of the \*(TX pattern matching language when matching a variable followed by a directive, such as |