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

[Jens Axel Søgaard]

Alan Watson skrev:
> Sorry if I wasn't clear, but my question was not tongue in cheek. 

Sorry about that.

> It was 
> a rhetorical question giving an example of why using the term "script" 
> and the #! notation is a bad idea for something that is not necessarily 
> a script (in the widely understood sense of something that is read into 
> a translator in source form and executed immediately).

Good point.

But why rule out the possibility of having Unix-scripts written
in Scheme "just work"?

My inner pragmatist wants Unix-scripts to work.
My inner theorist agrees with you.

-- 
Jens Axel Søgaard