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Re: Should [[ -v 1 ]] be supported?

From Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: Should [[ -v 1 ]] be supported?
Date 2018-12-27 13:22 -0500
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <mailman.6403.1545934948.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 12/26/18 10:49 PM, Peng Yu wrote:

> Although [[ -z ${1+s} ]]  and (($#)) works for testing if $1 is set,
> neither of them are uniformly better performance wise. In this case,
> should [[ -v 1 ]] be supported?

So you're saying that neither of the existing options performs better
than the other, though they both perform well, so we should add some
new capability just because? That's a particularly poor argument.


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