On Thu, Jul 28, 2016, at 03:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Well, kinda sorta. I'm not really pulling your leg. But Perl has a > feature that if you tell it to run a file with a hashbang line, it > will call the given executable to run that file. That's now been > improved to recognise Perl6 as an external executable, instead of > trying to run it as Perl 5 code.
Okay... think about that for a minute. Under what circumstances are you likely to start a file with a hashbang line with a program other than the one named in the hashbang line? If you said "On MS Windows, when the file's extension is associated with such a program", you're right. That's why we have py.exe. > https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#Hashbang-redirection-to-Perl-6 > > Should Python do something similar? At least for Python 2/3 code? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
