Comments on DMD frontend.

Julio César Carrascal Urquijo jcarrascal at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 12:15:35 PST 2008


Bill Baxter wrote:
> You gotta be kidding.  I've seen lots of extensions used for C++ code, 
> but never .c.
> file.cpp, file.cc, file.C, file.CC, file.cxx, file.c++, file.C++, yes 
> yes and yes.
> But never file.c.
> 
> Calling it "commonly used" is a stretch.
> 
> But I think that being a "barrier to contributors" is a stretch as well. 
>  File naming pales in comparison to the other barriers that exist.
> 
> --bb


Not as uncommon as I though:

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=file%3A%5C.c%24+%3A%3A

There's a lot of C++ code using the .c extension. Specially from Mozilla 
and the W3C.


-- 
Julio César Carrascal Urquijo
http://jcesar.artelogico.com/



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