This is a follow-up issue for the discussion here:

> Should we do a more general review of our patterns to see if we have more instances of `[]` doing unexpected things?

_Originally posted by @cscheid in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/pull/4993#pullrequestreview-1361351276_
            
cscheid
2023-03-29T08:08:59Z
allenmanning
triaged-to
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A more general review of our patterns to see if we have more instances of `[]`
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/5015