Re: New word splitting semantics for kvpair compound assignment

On 8/19/26 12:44 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.3
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: maint
> 
> git commit 2f7eb80c77
> 
> This has no effect on key-value pair compound assignment as part of a
> declaration command.

OK. Please test out the compound assignment statement behavior.


> I know that bash by default can't actually export indexed or
> associative arrays into the environment, but was that last bit just
> undocumented behavior, or was that not supposed to happen at all?

You can set the export attribute, it just doesn't get added to the
environment.


> I have a hard time believing that anyone would take advantage of the
> prior key-value pair compound assignment behavior. I don't see a point
> to the new kvpair_split shopt option.

OK. It's enabled by default.

> The description of the readonly command in the devel branch doc/bash.1
> includes a little typo:
>> This sets the value of the variable ~~is~~ to value while modifying the readonly attribute.

Thanks.


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