Shifty shift (Re: ignored-patterns giving correction a go)

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 22,  2:32pm, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: ignored-patterns giving correction a go
}
} Bart Schaefer wrote:
} 
} > } > 	   shift "i > $# ? $# : i"  # Stupid shift error on i > $#
} > } 
} > } Yes! It's annoying, isn't it? I was tempted more than one to change it.
} > 
} > Bash gives the same error.  Sigh.
} 
} So does ksh (`shift: bad number'). Damn.

Foolish consistency?

} Does that make `argv=( $argv[2,-1] )' more efficient in some cases?

More efficient than "i > $# ? $# : i"?  Probably, if the array is short.

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