Can not run the export utility when partially quoted

[9ao9ai9ar]

osh-0.23.0$ \export -p
  \export -p
  ^~
[ interactive ]:1: Can't run assignment builtin recursively
osh-0.23.0$ export'' PATH
  export'' PATH
  ^~~~~~
[ interactive ]:2: Can't run assignment builtin recursively
osh-0.23.0$ 'export' -p SHELL
declare -x SHELL=/bin/bash

[andychu]

This is likely to be low priority unless/until it shows up in a real script

I think we have seen other instances of this problem -- it's been discussed on Zulip

[9ao9ai9ar]

It used to show up in my personal scripts, but I have reordered the line after unalias -a so the quoting is not needed anymore (even if I have to, I could just quote the whole name, which is a trivial workaround).

[andychu]

OK I'd be interested to see the script

We may relax this, so having some real test cases can help

IIRC the reason it's like this is that assignment builtins like export declare etc. have special parsing rules

especially when you combine that with arrays in bash, you will get weird results

e.g. I think it may be related to builtin declare x=string and builtin declare x=(array val) - the latter is not consistent