* Andrew McNabb [Sun,  8 Aug 2004 at 21:41 -0600]
<quote>
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 09:00:58PM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
> > 
> > Ah, but that's your script reading it's input, not the interpreter
> > itself.  The two could concievably be different things.  Perhaps the
> > extra complication of keeping them separate is one reason to do it the
> > way it's done.
> 
> Exactly.  When you add extra complexity without getting extra
> functionality, it's usually a bad way to go. :)
</quote>

And also not every script interpreter will take stdin, passing the filename
is the gauranteed way to go.

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