On 12/23/18 12:07 PM, Bize Ma wrote:
> Chet Ramey (<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>) wrote:
>
> On 8/15/18 3:36 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> > It does look like bash can be more efficient with argument handling.
> > Since, for example, dash does it.
>
> Yes, it just needs new primitives to do it. The existing code for managing
> the saved positional parameters has been in bash since the pre-1.0 days
> and
> is pretty much unchanged since then. I'll take a look.
>
>
> Have you been able to "take a look" ?
Yes, as a matter of fact. Look at the changelog for the day or two around
the date of the referenced messages.
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