From: Daniel Martin <martin@...>
Date: 2007-05-12T03:03:44+09:00
Subject: Re: shebang - what's the point?

Todd Burch <promos@burchwoodusa.com> writes:

> So, when it comes down to it, what's the point of the shebang line?

There's one more advantage to using a #! line that applies when you're
posting a script in an email message -- in that case, you should begin
your script with

#!ruby

and end it with

__END__

If you do that, then people can save your email message to a file and
just run it with:

ruby -x email_message.txt

Regardless of what kind of headers or footers got attached to the
email message. (So long as email didn't word-wrap your script,
everything should be good)

-- 
s=%q(  Daniel Martin -- martin@snowplow.org
       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.to_a.last       )
       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.to_a.last