On Thursday 16 August 2012 20:36:45 Keith Clifford wrote: > some_var=# What I thought was a comment. > > The '#' is eaten by the variable assignment so that some_var gets a null > value and the rest of the line is not treated like a command.
this is correct (if sometimes confusing to people) behavior. you need to have some byte in there that breaks up the tokens -- be it a tab, space, or newline. -mike
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