Nick wrote:
> In article <dshdns$a6s$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
> 
>>Added features to make D useable as a scripting language on unix.
>>
>>http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
> 
> Thanks for a(nother) great update! However, scripting (#! at the first line)
> doesn't seem to work correctly. I assume I am supposed to supply the -run
> parameter, but consider a file that contains
> 
> #!/usr/bin/dmd -run
> 
> The actual command exectued is "/usr/bin/dmd -run filename.d", where filename.d is parsed as an argument to -run.

I've included a shell script that we use in-house. Merely putting it in your $HOME/bin lets you use D programs as genuine shell scripts. And without the .d suffix. We've been using it for quite a while since I first showed it in this ng.

> I imagine something analogous would work with Linux, but I haven't investigated it.

I guess I can implement backtrace into linux & gdc. But on Linux, we can get backtrace with gdb easily. So, is it needed?

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:39:31 +0900, shinichiro.h <s31552@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
>> I imagine something analogous would work with Linux, but I haven't
>> investigated it.
>
> I guess I can implement backtrace into linux & gdc. But on Linux,
> we can get backtrace with gdb easily. So, is it needed?

Yes. Customers/Users do not always know how to use gdb and produce a backtrace, being able to do it ourselves is useful.

Regan