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

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At 2018-12-27T19:24:22-0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> > I don't believe that at all. The number of positional parameters is kept
> > anyway. It's not recalculated when you compare it to another number, so
> > it's just as fast as a simple comparison of two integers.
> 
> Getting the number $# is slow.

By what metric, and how do you know?

Regards,
Branden

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