[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] "#! /usr/bin/env" is not "portable." It's Unix-specific.

From: AndrevanTonder <andre>
Date: Wed Nov 15 10:13:29 2006

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, John Cowan wrote:

> I think we have three proposals, any of which is viable:
>
> 1) Ignore the first line if it begins with "#!".
>
> 2) Make "#!" a general comment start, like ";".
>
> 3) Make "#!...!#" a general pair of comment delimiters.

4) Take the draft statement "a script is a delimited piece of text"
    seriously, realize that the #! line is a delimiter, that
    the /Scheme/ script starts after that, and stop confusing
    "Scheme scripts" with "Unix script files", preferably by
    using a different word for the Scheme whatever.

Andre
Received on Wed Nov 15 2006 - 10:09:22 UTC