Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cme!durer.cme.nist.gov!przemek From: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Perl file extension Message-ID: Date: 29 May 91 15:52:26 GMT Sender: news@cme.nist.gov Distribution: comp Organization: U. Notre Dame/NIST Lines: 13 Hello! I noticed that RCS treats files with extension ".pl" as Prolog files; as a result it inserts $Log$ entries prefixed with % instead of # as the comment char. I know it is too late, because files in the Book of Camels have already been using the extension .pl, but perhaps it could be considered to change to something else? ".prl" or ".pr" perhaps... -- przemek klosowski (przemek@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu) Physics Department University of Notre Dame IN 46556