Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] Parsing the file attributes line.

[Joe Marshall]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Taylor R Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
>   Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:06:44 -0700
>   From: Joe Marshall <address@hidden>
>
>   I've just added support for parsing the `file attributes line' in
>   scheme source files.
>   The file attributes line is the line at the top of the file that looks
>   like this:
>    -*- Mode: Scheme -*-
>
> I know it is traditional, but I am very unhappy about having text
> occurring in comments affect the interpretation of non-comment text.

Yeah, I agree, but there aren't many other options if you want the source
code to be somewhat portable.  I was leaning towards something more
like rfc-2822, but I didn't get much traction there.  At least the
file attributes
line has a long MIT background.

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~jrm