FSFE-defined coding standards?

[kreyren at rixotstudio.cz]

On 2/9/21 10:40 PM, Eike Rathke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday, 2021-02-08 10:56:43 +0000, Jacob Hrbek wrote:
>
>> Should FSFE provide some kind of platform for community to discuss and propose coding standards?
> Before discussing coding standards we should rule out bad Mail User
> Agents that produce totally unusable text/plain from text/html in their
> multipart/alternative:
>
>> Bad code:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> number=
>>
>> "5"
>>
>> if
>>
>> [[
>>
>> "
>>
>> $number
>>
>> "
>>
>> =~ [0-9] ]];
>>
>> then
>>
>> whatever;
>>
>> fi
>>
>> - Works only on systems with dynamic linking
>> - Bash is not part of standard portable OS → Not portable
>>
>> Good code:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> # shellcheck shell=sh # Written to comply with IEEE Std 1003.1-2017
>> [<http://get.posixcertified.ieee.org/>](http://get.posixcertified.ieee.org/)
>> number=
>>
>> "5"
>>
>> case
>>
>> "
>>
>> $number
>>
>> "
>>
>> in
>>
>> [0-9]) whatever;
>>
>> esac
>
> As sent, both are bad code.
>
>    Eike
>
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Justify bad code and elaborate on bad mail user agents.

-- 
- Krey

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