Is double square brackets [[ ]] preferable over single square brackets [ ] in Bash?

Question

A co-worker claimed recently in a code review that the [[ ]] construct is to be preferred over [ ] in constructs like

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Answer 1

[[ ]] double brackets are unsuported under certain version of SunOS and totally unsuported inside function declarations by : GNU bash, version 2.02.0(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris2.6)