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

From: Arthur A. Gleckler <arthur>
Date: Wed Nov 15 16:36:58 2006

On Nov 15, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Alan Watson wrote:

> Now, I think in most cases those interpreters are there more to
> provide a REPL than to provide an interpreted script engine. There
> seems to be a trend away from a REPL in the draft R6RS. Therefore,
> one might also expect a trend away from providing interpreters, at
> least in some implementations.

I certainly hope there's no resulting trend away from providing
interactive environments, whether interpreted or compiled. That has
been one of the great historical strengths of the language's typical
development environment.
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