Re: No word splitting for assignment-like expressions in compound assignment

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On Jul 27 2020, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> If word splitting were not performed in compound assignments, this...
>
>     foo=(a b c)
>
> ...would not work.

This is not true.  Field splitting is only relevant for words generated
by other expansions, not for literal tokens.

Andreas.

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