Re: scripts on unix

Frederik Eaton wrote:

Scripts are tidy, since they're also a source file and you don't have to worry about keeping a separate binary executable up to date. I'm sure this topic has been well discussed on the vast internet. For instance, look at Setup.hs in Cabal. That could be called a script, because it is rarely compiled, although it doesn't have the advantage of being executable via the kernel, which most other scripts on Unix do.

It could easily be executed directly, though, if you use File.lhs, so that it can have a #!/usr/bin/runhaskell at the top. Dave