Comments on DMD frontend.

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el 26 de febrero a las 12:24 me escribiste:
> 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.

It's not confusing to you! If you do it in a closed source project, it's
perfectly fine but if you do it in an open source project, it's a bad
thing (TM). You are putting a barrier to people to contribute (and making
D look ugly).

What are the chances that you rename them to a commonly used C++
extension?

And what about the debug stuff. Are you willing to accept patcher or not?
I'm just looking for a "yes" or "no". Please?

Thank you.

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