Bug#383149: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#383149: Found the cause.

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2006-08-17 17:24]:

> * John Dalton <john.dalton at bigfoot.com> [2006-08-17 21:53]:
> 
> > I don't really understand what
> > : ${variable="value"}
> > is doing.  Can someone please explain it to me?
> 
> I think that the colon in the command above is superfluous.

No, I was wrong, the colon *_is_* necessary.  Without it, the construct
${var=...} alone in a line will not work.

-- 
Rafael