On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:51:27PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> can't tell if this is a bug or a feature.
>
> FOO= BAR=bar
> : ${FOO:=${BAR}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
> echo $FOO
>
> i'd expect an error, or FOO to contain those excess braces. instead, FOO is
> just "bar".
imadev:~$ : ${FOO:=BAR}qqqqqqqqqqqq
imadev:~$ echo "$FOO"
BAR
It looks OK to me. You've got an argument word which happens to contain
a substitution-with-side-effects as part of it.
