From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:16:22 -0400
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Subject: Re: Porting problems with Sh-utils (beta)
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> What I think is happening is that the value of source is being lost after the
> execution of the 1st process (that's `echo`). And since the script is invoked
> next (the 2nd process to run), the "source" value is for some reason not
> passed on which I think is a bug.
> 

Here are some curious items I came across:
# source does not get set
source='here is some text' echo $source

# source does get set
source='here is some text' ; echo $source

# source does get set, and so does source2
source='here is some text' source2='here is more more text'
echo "$source"
echo "$source2"

It would seem that multiple variable assignments are ok, but a variable 
assignment followed by a non-variable assignment isn't.