Oil [1] supports all of this old syntax to run existing shell scripts, but has new syntax which is more convenient.

- You can write @ARGV instead of "$@".

- You can write @myarray instead of "${myarray[@]}"

(Related: Thirteen Incorrect Ways and Two Awkward Ways to Use Arrays https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/06.html )

Example:

    oil$ var myarray = @('has spaces' foo)
    oil$ var s = $'has\ttabs'

    # function to print an array element on each line
    oil$ lines() { for x in @ARGV; do echo $x; done }

    # pass 3 args -- 2 from myarray and 1 from s
    oil$ lines @myarray $s
    has spaces
    foo
    has     tabs

[1] https://www.oilshell.org/