[Bash-completion-devel] hostname completion issues

[Ville Skyttä]

On Saturday 25 July 2009, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> I like the idea, but using stdout for output would force to use
> subshells to get the result.
[...]
> I guess there would be additional overhead added.

It would also require the caller to take care of $IFS stuff, whereas if adding 
directly to an array, functions can take care of that internally as 
appropriate.