On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 8:22 AM Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
> The normal rules of precedence apply, and the conditional expression on the
> rhs of the `:' can't contain an assignment, since the assignment operator
> has higher precedence.
>
>
This excerpt from the Bash man page ARITHMETIC EVALUATION section:
expr?expr:expr
conditional operator
= *= /= %= += -= <<= >>= &= ^= |=
assignment
indicates that assignment has a lower precedence than the overall ternary
without specifying precedence of individual parts of it.
Interestingly, zsh requires both assignments to be parenthesized and ksh
doesn't require either. Bash is like C and ksh is like cpp.
