Re: Proposal: allow "guile foo.scm"

[Neil Jerram]

Andy Wingo wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> What do you think of allowing guile to be run as "guile foo.scm"? The
> proposal is for it to be the same as "guile -s foo.scm". This would
> allow the #! sequence to be shorter, e.g.
>
> #! /usr/bin/env guile
> !#
> ...
>
> instead of
>
> #! /bin/sh
> exec guile -s $0 "$@"
> !#
>
> assuming you want to find `guile' in the path, of course.
>
> Thoughts?
>  
This in already in CVS HEAD (since August 2003), so will be in 1.8 one day.

   Neil