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


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Should [[ -v 1 ]] be supported?
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 13:22:15 -0500
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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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