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

Andre van Tonder andre at het.brown.edu
Tue Nov 14 14:57:40 EST 2006


On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Arthur A. Gleckler wrote:

> Perhaps, but the spec. refers to the "#! /usr/bin/env scheme-script" line as 
> the "default portable form."  But it's portable only to Unix systems.

Not even!  The specification requires even implementations running on Unix to 
ignore the first line, which can contain anything at all.

Andre



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