From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-04-20T14:21:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Multi-Lingual Ruby

> Actually, you shouldn't be, since that seems to (somehow) be the
> source of the problem.  Make it ##!/... and the problem goes away.
> 
> The question is why this influences ruby...

Indeed, this is an odd behaviour.  Below is another example.  It certainly 
looks like ruby is calling Perl, but I don't see why it should.

dcarrera ~ $ cat > example
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
           
puts "Hello World"
dcarrera ~ $ 
dcarrera ~ $ ruby example 
Unquoted string "puts" may clash with future reserved word at example line 
3.
String found where operator expected at example line 3, near "puts "Hello 
World""
        (Do you need to predeclare puts?)
syntax error at example line 3, near "puts "Hello World""
Execution of example aborted due to compilation errors.
dcarrera ~ $


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Daniel Carrera
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University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137