Re: Spaces trimmed from $* when assigned while IFS is unset [was: Unexpected word splitting on $* ...]

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/26/17 11:50 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Op 20-06-17 om 02:13 schreef Kevin Brodsky:
>> When IFS is unset, unquoted $* undergoes word splitting as if IFS=' ',
>> and not the expected IFS=$' \t\n'.
> 
> Possibly related are the following two issues:

Thanks for the report. I'll fix these for the next devel branch push.

It's interesting that other shells treat ${a:=b} as kind of like an
assignment statement (word splitting) but not quite (tilde expansion).

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