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

Nils M Holm holm at t3x.org
Wed Nov 15 09:51:21 EST 2006


On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:29:43AM -0500, 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.

If we used 3) and made it nestable, we could drop #|...|#.

However, I like #|...|# better than #!...!#, so I would
favour 2).

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