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

Andre van Tonder andre at het.brown.edu
Tue Nov 14 14:29:24 EST 2006


On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> I think that unixisms don't belong in the document too, but there's a
> very strong point for allowing them in some portable way.

I am not sure I see the point to which you are referring.

This is a file format issue.  It seems inconsistent that r6rs does
not address file format for libraries, yet chooses to do so for scripts,
and in a way that is so badly broken.

Andre




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