From: "SHIGETOMI, Takuhiko" <tshiget1@...>
Date: 2005-08-28T10:54:35+09:00
Subject: Re: how do you describe '#!' in written english?

greetings, James.

your information has made my eyes open wider.

> shebang /sh*-bang/ n. 

this regexp means that it has some variety of expressions or dialects,
right?  intriguing :-)

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> SHIGETOMI, Takuhiko wrote:
> > quick question.
> > sorry, this is not a question of Ruby but a more general inquiry.
> > 
> > I'd like to ask you how do you describe '#!' which we always put at the
> > head of the scripting source code file.
> > I know that its pronunciation is 'she bang' but am not sure that this
> > 'she bang' would be correct description or not.
> > 
> 
> 
> See The Hacker's Dictionary:
> 
> http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html#shebang
> 
> James	
> 
> 
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