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.

Chet
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