Should ifs split by strings?

[Nomarian]

This is more of a feature request and would maybe break behaviour but considering ifs is a list, it should probably behave in a manner of ifs=($nl^$nl $ifs(1)) that is, split by 2 newline characters (a string) and because its a list to also split by all other elements in the ifs list

[stephane-chazelas]

That would make sense (and would also work around the fact that this rc doesn't support multi-byte characters), but that would break backward compatibility. I suppose some existing scripts use things like ifs = ',: '.

[Nomarian]

well, brc already has `` $IFS {} and $^, which is unsupported in 9rc.

[xyb3rt]

I think we should definitely not change the behaviour of $ifs. What's your opinion on this, @rakitzis?

[rakitzis]

I'll close this. Let's leave ifs alone.