>Hmm, in terms of LISP/Scheme transparence: is '#!' really a good choice? >After all '#!' is Guiles (and SCSH's) start of multiline comment character i sure read that in Guile 1.6.0 multiple line comment had been swiched to #| |# is this not correct? otherwise ill purge #! from the boos since you can pass string names to the events function. geez if guile still uses #! then im up for suggestions...