scripts on unix

[David Brown]

Frederik Eaton wrote:
> Scripts are tidy, since they're also a source file and you don't have
> to worry about keeping a separate binary executable up to date. I'm
> sure this topic has been well discussed on the vast internet. For
> instance, look at Setup.hs in Cabal. That could be called a script,
> because it is rarely compiled, although it doesn't have the advantage
> of being executable via the kernel, which most other scripts on Unix
> do.

It could easily be executed directly, though, if you use File.lhs, so
that it can have a #!/usr/bin/runhaskell at the top.

Dave