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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: best extension for C++ source files
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Date: 27 Aug 90 19:19:20 GMT
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In article <48253@brunix.UUCP> sdm@cs.brown.edu (Scott Meyers) writes:
<Personally, I believe that compilers should compile any file fed to them,
<regardless of the file extension, but that seems to be a renegade position.

Zortech C++ will compile any file as a C++ file *if the filename is explicit*.
If the filename has no extension, it will try tacking on various extensions
to try and figure out what was meant.