env: unexpected expanding string to path

with @.env.swap(QWE="~"):
    echo $QWE
# /home/user

Expected ~ as an output.

It looks this is old bug. I can reproduce on xonsh 0.18.

Workaround is using @():

with @.env.swap(QWE="~"):
    echo @($QWE)
# ~

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