That's a matter of opinion. I don't find using "$@" to be a big deal in practice. Let me put it like this: I'm a programmer. I don't mind making programming a

That's a matter of opinion. I don't find using "$@" to be a big deal in practice. Let me put it like this: I'm a programmer. I don't mind making programming a bit harder for myself if it means that I get to avoid a lot of the non-programing minutia that's part of a modern interpreted environment. Also, if you're willing to take a dependency on jq, the issue goes away completely.