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

From	Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: No word splitting for assignment-like expressions in compound assignment
Date	2020-07-27 18:19 -0400
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> On Jul 27, 2020, at 4:02 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

My fault, I got it mixed up with tokenization. Carry on!

vq

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Re: No word splitting for assignment-like expressions in compound assignment Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> - 2020-07-27 18:19 -0400

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