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From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: zsh3.0.0 bug: $=a split
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>why do these print out the same thing all of a sudden?
>
>wrath% i=$a
>wrath% i=$=a
>wrath% i=$==a

Because they mean the same thing?  Field splitting is never performed
on the RHS of a scalar assignment.

-zefram