Re: Is quoting of the assigned value needed?

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2019-11-22 at 16:01 +0100, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> I'm thinking on simplifying the plugin standard's proposed $0
> handling, which is currently:
> 
> 0="${${ZERO:-${0:#$ZSH_ARGZERO}}:-${(%):-%N}}"
> 0="${${(M)0:#/*}:-$PWD/$0}"
> 
> I.e.: about skipping the quoting. Before I do this is want to be
> completely sure that it'll always work.

Scalar assignment is always scalar assignment, yes.  That's basically
the meaning of the text I quoted saying why GLOB_ASSIGN got moved out
to an option.

pws