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

Anton van Straaten anton at appsolutions.com
Thu Nov 23 15:24:01 EST 2006


Shiro Kawai wrote:
> When it matters is, probably, to exchange some reference
> implementations or proof-of-concept type scripts.  

I think it goes some way beyond that.  Not every packaged application 
needs to have a sophisticated install script, and a default that has a 
good chance of working in many situations is still useful.

> If the editor's intention of #!-line specification is like
> the latter case, I'm ok with it.  Having such a declaration 
> is certainly convenient.   

That's roughly how I see it.

> If that's the case, however, I'd
> like such intention to be explained in the spec, as it seems
> to have created some confusion.

Agreed.

Anton



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