Re: inconsistent field splitting

[lxnf98mm]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Probably result in some error; I do not really care in this initial
> > stage. In any case it should not perform any *implicit* (and
> > thus confusing) quoting.
>
> There is no quoting, the shell just doesn't split into words, which
> doesn't make any sense in an assignment.
>
> > Quoting makes a difference in some places but no difference in other
> > places (because of some kind of "implicit quoting").
>
> There is a big difference between
>
> $ a=";"
>
> and
>
> $ a=;
>
> Andreas.

And for the VERY ignorant what is the difference

Richard