On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > 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? >
I dunno... someone types "python scriptname.py" maybe? Doesn't ever happen, which is why it totally isn't in my FAQ for my students. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
