Re: New word splitting semantics for kvpair compound assignment

Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/22/26 9:05 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 at 01:18, Chet Ramey <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     OK. It's enabled by default.
> 
> 
> When creating a new option, how is the default chosen, between near 
> equivalents:
> 
>   * shopt -s kvpair_split
>   * shopt -u no_kvpair_split

It's not a hard and fast rule. In this case, the new option directly
reflects the behavior change: we are now splitting words in compound
key-value pair assignments.

This is pretty common: localvar_inherit, inherit_errexit, and so on.

The default is chosen independently. In this case, the consensus is that
the old behavior is simply not useful (or not useful enough), so the
default is `on'.

-- 
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    [email protected]    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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