[TUHS] On computerese

[Chet Ramey via TUHS]

On 9/17/24 9:40 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:

>> The change was motivated by the rc shell,
>> which treated x=y anywhere on the command line (not just at the
>> beginning of a command) as a variable assignment.
> 
> That is plain broken, 

Unfamiliar, maybe, but even the Bourne shell had `set -k'.

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