This will cause the creation of a variable in the case of ${foo=bar}.
These operators can be used in a v... or setting defaults for command-line arguments in case the user omits them. We'll use the first one in o... shorthand for ${foo} which is really the simplest case of several ${foo:operators} and similar construct... of this command with anything you like.
Another case might be where you'd want to traverse a list of d