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+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+# if IFS side effects in ${IFS=} assignments take place, how do you cope with
+# later changes to IFS in the same set of expansions? You've already
+# committed to using the first character of the (old) IFS to expand $* in
+# the previous expansions, and changing it to not include ' ', for instance,
+# results in the first couple of ${*} below not being split at all
+
+set -f -- a b c
+
+unset -v IFS
+printf '<%s> ' ${*}${IFS=}${*}${IFS:=-}"${*}"
+echo
+printf "after 1: IFS "
+echo "${IFS-unset}"
+recho "$*"
+
+set -f -- a 'b c' d
+unset -v IFS
+printf '<%s> ' ${*}${IFS=}${*}${IFS:=-}"${*}"
+echo
+printf "after 2: IFS "
+echo "${IFS-unset}"
+recho "$*"
+
+unset -v IFS
+recho $*
+recho "$*"
+
+IFS=' '
+recho $*
+recho "$*"