On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:11:24PM +0100, Jens Axel S?gaard wrote:
> Nils M Holm skrev:
> >On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:04:40PM -0500, Peter Gavin wrote:
> >>In addition, I would drop the requirement that the first line be
> >>ignored. That wouldn't be needed were #! a comment indicator.
> >
> >Ignoring the first line would open the door to a lot of bad
> >surprises for people who start learning Scheme.
>
> In practise, implementations will probably only ignore the
> first line, if it starts with a #!
I would be happy if this was so, but in <7.1.1> R5.91RS states that
"Implementations are required to ignore the first line, however,
even if it is not the above."
("The above" being "#! /usr/bin/env scheme-script".)
> >Plus it would make all one-liners two-liners, which I think
> >would be rather inelegant.
>
> If we don't treat the first line specially, then all one-liners
> become two-file scripts in Unix.
I am not against #! in general, I just do not understand why
we have to treat the first line in a special way. Why is it not
sufficient to make #! a comment to the end of line?
This would still allow you to run
% echo "(+ 1 2 3)" | my-interpreter
while enabling Scheme programs to run as scripts at the same time.
What am I missing?
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Received on Wed Nov 15 2006 - 09:31:26 UTC