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. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."