Officially support a shebang line

[Jan Krems]

Sorry, mentioning support in syntax highlighters might have been
misleading. I am talking specifically about executable JavaScript scripts
and modules. It's a common pattern in node to have programs written in
JavaScript, with a shebang and the x flag set.

I just mentioned editor / syntax highlighter support to say "this is
already de-facto part of real life JavaScript as it's understood by tools,
it's just missing from the spec".

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 1:44 AM Alexander Jones <alex at weej.com> wrote:

> It doesn't make any sense. The shebang is a UNIX way of declaring the
> interpreter for an executable script, not for hinting your syntax
> highlighter. If your file is not executable (as in, it can't be run with
> `./filename`, it shouldn't have a shebang).
>
> On 19 May 2017 at 02:44, Jan Krems <jan.krems at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Tried to search past proposals for this but couldn't find one The short
>> version: Most editors / syntax highlighting engines, non-engine parsers,
>> node.js - they all support a leading shebang line in .js files. With the
>> advent of ES6 modules it's the final holdout where node has to patch the
>> script source to make V8 parse the code (and thus producing a mismatch
>> between what's on disk and what the engine sees).
>>
>> Is there a downside to allow any script or module to begin with the
>> magical #! bytes? It should not break existing scripts because it's invalid
>> syntax today & the parse overhead should be fairly limited.
>>
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