Monster 0.8 + Tutorial

[Bill Baxter]

Nicolay Korslund wrote:
> Anders F Björklund Wrote:
> 
>> Nicolay Korslund wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, that's true. Looks like the .m extension is also used by Maple,
>>> Mathematica and Objective-C, to name a few. I think I'll switch to
>>> the much less occupied .mo.
>> Gettext uses .mo for locale translations, but maybe that's still "less".
> 
> You are right, but I don't think that will be as much of a problem though.
> 
> I guess the biggest issue with shared file extensions is on Windows and other
> GUI-based systems where users expect to open common file types by double
> clicking on them, or in other cases where it's easy to confuse what kind of file
> you're dealing with. Like if you have a year-old directory called all-math-scripts/
> and you're a regular user of Matlab, Mathematica and Maple - I wouldn't want
> to be that person :-)

Well the other thing is code editors.  They often decide which mode to 
use based on file extension.  I don't do anything with gettext mo files, 
but a quick check reveals there is indeed an "mo-mode" for emacs meant 
for editing those gettext files.  So I'd avoid .mo too if I were you.

--bb