Re: [PATCH] efficient [[ -v 1 ]] [was: Should [[ -v 1 ]] be supported?]

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/18/20 2:48 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Op 29-12-18 om 01:19 schreef Chet Ramey:
>> On 12/27/18 3:11 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
>>
>>> Consistency might be a better argument. If [[ -v foo ]] is equivalent to [[
>>> -n ${foo+s} ]] for variables (with the advantage that you don't need 'eval'
>>> to handle arbitrary values of 'foo'), then perhaps it's not unreasonable to
>>> expect [[ -v 1 ]] to be equivalent to [[ -n ${1+s} ]].
>>
>> The completeness argument is more rigorous, and there's a case to add this
>> in a future version of bash. He didn't make that argument, though.
> 
> I noticed some deactivated code tagged bash-5.1 with my name on it. Cool. :)
> 
> Isn't the way below much more efficient, though? There's no need to
> retrieve and discard the value of a positional parameter -- we can just
> compare the number to $#, i.e. number_of_args(). Any number between 0 and
> $#, inclusive, represents a set positional parameter by definition.

Thanks; that's clever.

Chet

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