On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 05:15:36PM +0800, Clark Wang wrote: > I don't know much about bash's source code so I cannot comment much. And > this kind of arguments are quite opinion based which are not simple yes/no > questions.
That's precisely what a "coding standard" is -- an opinion. If one starts a thread with the subject "coding standards", opinions are what one should expect to receive.