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From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: 8-bit patch for zle_tricky.c
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Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 18:54:57 +0100 (BST)
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>I do not think so.  Neither bash nor ksh93 does this.  Look:
>
>% ksh
>$ count () { echo $# ; }
>$ IFS=/
>$ count as/df/gh
>1
>
>SH_WORD_SPLIT only changes the result of substitutions.

Hmm.  ksh doesn't field split there, but sh does.  I think we should
eventually have an option to emulate this, but it's not essential.

-zefram