Option to turn off pagination in shortcodes?

I often need to display just one or two of the latest uploads in a certain category.
I prefer to use shortcodes to set that up, and often I don’t need pagination. Could we have support for the new shortcode: [pagination=”0″ ] please?

If not, or maybe even better(!), could we have support for the shortcode [item_limit=”2″] instead of [item_per_page]. Item per page would then include pagination and request all the packages/posts from the database, and item_limit would not include pagination, and also only query the database for as many posts/packages as specified.

Thank you.