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

[Arthur A. Gleckler]

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.