Subject: Re: Read-time _apply_: an external representation for any value
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1999/04/12
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <7es96v$1ndep@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Vassil Nikolov  <vnikolov@poboxes.com> wrote:
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| ...or perhaps #!fn(arg...) unless the latter is seen as too unixish.
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It's not that it's "too Unix-ish", it's that it's already widely
defined in most Schemes (and some Lisps?) as a kind of comment, to
support the Unix "#!/path/to/interp options" scripting convention.
You don't want all your scripts to suddenly start breaking, do you?


-Rob

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