Bug in #! processing
Sławek Żak
zaks at prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl
Mon Oct 4 04:38:37 PDT 2004
Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser at chello.cz> writes:
> # zaks at prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl / 2004-09-30 13:59:48 +0200:
>> I don't see a convincing use for comments on the first line of script.
>> Hash is special already when treated as comment character. # is not a
>> comment in any `scripting language'. It is a shell legacy and shouldn't
>> be forced on the remaining universe.
>
> '#' is the (or a) comment character in awk, perl, PHP, python, ruby and
> sed, just from the top of my head.
True. It's not in: Common Lisp, Scheme, SQL, M4, JavaScript. But as I stated
- shell and other interpreted languages are not the whole world.
/S
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