Bug#331532: [PROPOSAL] change §10.4 "set -e OR check return status" to AND or be rewritten

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Ben Finney writes ("Re: Bug#331532: [PROPOSAL 	] change §10. 	4 "set -e OR check return status" to AND or be rewritten"):
> Not in policy, IMO. I'd like to keep that camel's nose out of the
> tent.

It's already there and has been for years.  The important thing is to
have only the nose and not the whole camel.

> Policy can refer the reader to a separate document with good
> programming guides, or "here's a document listing things that are just
> programming bugs anyway".

Such guides inevitably become very long and no-one reads them.

Ian.