On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 05:05:16PM -0800, Nick Stoughton wrote:
> There is a macro that drops in the correct wording here (\*(St as I recall);
> It is replaced by the highest level approving body. When the document is an
> approved ISO standard, this string magically becomes "this part of ISO/IEC
> 9945".
Well, I thought we would have one and the same document for publication.
Including references to itself. Then we could not have IEEE in one, TOG in
the other and ISO in the third version.
> On your second question you have a good point, though the "#!" stuff is not
> a part of the spec. Therefore, a perl script (or any other script) is not a
> portable utility and is therefore out of scope; by this definition they are
> not utilities. There is no mechanism in the standard to support any type of
> utility that is not either a binary or shell script.
Everybody supports #! - why not standardize it?
Keld
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