Comments on DMD frontend.

[Alexander Panek]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> My firt big surprise, and not a good one, was that the frontend files are
>> named with the .c extension, instead of .cpp, .cxx, or anything used for
>> C++ files. Is there a rationale behind that? I find it very confusing.
> 
> When I first started with C++, I carefully named all my h files ".hpp" 
> and source files ".cpp". Over time, the .hpp was dropped in favor of .h, 
> and eventually .cpp => .c.
> 
> It's not confusing to me because I never mix C and C++ source files in 
> the same project.

Well, but other people might look at your sources the first time, not 
knowing what language those are actually written in..

Consistency is one of the good measurements for product quality.