Can't the dmd source files finally get a proper C++ file extension?

[Zachary Lund]

On 01/25/2012 12:25 AM, torhu wrote:
> On 24.01.2012 03:35, Trass3r wrote:
>> It's really annoying. clang++ gives a lot of warnings and IDEs are
>> confused as well.
>
> Most compilers have switch a for specifying which language to compile as.

That's not the point. If a project uses C++, why give the files an 
extension of ".c"? I don't see any benefits what so ever from doing so 
and I am not aware of what compiler will only take in files with ".c" 
extensions.

While most C++ compilers do provide such a switch, it can easily be 
avoided by simply changing the file extension and let the compiler 
determine what type of data it contains (which is the purpose of a file 
extension in the first place).