How about this:  Your future Unix-based D interpreter can provide a language extension to support that.  And you personally can put it at the start of all your D scripts.  ;)

Sean

"Russell Borogove" <kaleja@estarcion.com> wrote in message news:3BF962FB.EECF5DD0@estarcion.com...
> "Sean L. Palmer" wrote:
> >
> > Please, no favors for Unix (or any other specific platform).  Especially
> > when it adds so little.
>
> It costs so little, particularly if the parser only has to accept #! at the beginning of the file.
>
> -RB

	Frankly, I have considered this, but I knew better than to bring it
up.  :->  A lot of people would like UNIX to die.  I had a manager that
told me that UNIX would be gone in five years and everything would run
on NT and (of all thing) Notes.  That was about five years ago and Linux
has become a buzzword.  Apparently it was not a prophetic statement.
	To be honest the UNIX shebang is kindof klunky in its own way.  I like
it better than dos style file extensions and other OSes that have
countless filesystem object types just to differentiate between
different file formats.  It's one of those things where I would like to
find "The Better Way" (tm).  But that is beyond the scope of this list.
I guess I wouldn't back a UNIXism just because I am already sick to
death of how Windowsism have spread.

Dan

Russ Lewis wrote:
> 
> Sheesh.  I had no desire to start a flame war.
> 
> Sorry.