Re: Arithmetic expression: recursive VAR evaluation suppresses desired VAR assignment

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Greg Wooledge wrote in
 <YvUPFIJeSBxj5rMs@wooledge.org>:
 |On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 04:04:57PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |> Hm.  Well i agree that precedence rules which loose a construct
 |> completely (in that =5 is lost in I=5?I:J) is weird, but other
 |
 |What's that even supposed to *be*?  You're assigning I=5 and then
 |checking whether the assignment actually worked?
 |
 |If you intended it to be   i==5 ? i : j   then you really ought to
 |put some parentheses in it, so people like me who haven't memorized
 |the C precedence rules for decades won't have to dig up a manual to
 |figure out whether it's   (i==5) ? i : j   or   i == (5 ? i : j).

It is part of a test script, and the thing tested is actually
recursive expansion.  Aka, that it does not happen when an
assignment is performed.  More precisely, an expansion that
modifies settings that affect further expansions.
I am not subscribed to this list btw.  Thank you.

--steffen
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