File extension of c++ files used on d compiler sources

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 23:14:52 UTC, Domingo Alvarez Duarte 
wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I'm starting to look at the d compiler sources and I'm using 
> netbeans to navigate through the sources, netbeans is very good 
> at showing warnings/errors with it's own internal parser, but 
> because all the c++ source files use ".c" as file extension 
> they are interpreted as "C" files and shows a lot of errors 
> parsing then as "C" files.
>
> It could be a silly question but here it is:
>
> Why the c++ source files do not use file extensions that proper 
> identifies then as c++ like ".cpp", ".C", ".cxx" ?
>
> This prevent/difficult some task automations by third party 
> tools like I'm experimenting now with netbeans.
>
> It's fine that D is innovating in the programming language 
> field but not all conventions are bad ones.
>
> Cheers !

I've had problems with using third party tools on the dmd source 
as well.

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