Re: Sesquicolon -- Note: Not a Bug

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

    The current implementation is not enough:

    pavel@SnowWhite:/tmp> cat /tmp/qq
    #!/usr/bin/emacs --script

    (message "The date is %s" (current-time-string))

    pavel@SnowWhite:/tmp> /tmp/qq
    Invalid read syntax: "#"

Does this fix it?

*** lread.c.~1.296.~	Fri Aug 23 23:14:22 2002
--- lread.c	Sat Aug 31 19:38:44 2002
***************
*** 2098,2103 ****
--- 2098,2111 ----
  
  	  goto retry;
  	}
+       if (c == '!')
+ 	{
+ 	  /* #! appears at the beginning of an executable file.
+ 	     Skip the first line.  */
+ 	  while (c != '\n')
+ 	    c = READCHAR;
+ 	  goto retry;
+ 	}
        if (c == '$')
  	return Vload_file_name;
        if (c == '\'')