Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

On Wednesday 01 February 2012, 19:08:16, Evan Laforge wrote:

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Simon Hengel wrote:

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Are you referring to the classical pattern, that allows you to add a shebang?

#!/usr/bin/env runhaskell

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import Distribution.Simple main = defaultMain

Ohh, so it's a trick to allow #! in there... I guess that would explain it! I just type runghc on everything and it seems like a lot of those don't have the executable bit set, so I hadn't thought of that reason.

That may have been the idea, but doesn't make a difference. GHC allows a shebang line as the first line of a file also in .hs files.