On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:31:32AM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote: > So it seems like the word splitting in "A=(X$Z)" is incorrect.
If the documentation doesn't support word splitting in that case, then it's the documentation that will need to change, not the shell. Word splitting in that context is *frequently* used in scripts. Never mind the fact that it's dangerous and wrong -- people use it, a lot. A change to the shell that would stop it from occurring would break countless scripts.
