Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!diku!seindal
From: seindal@diku.UUCP (Rene' Seindal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ source file names
Message-ID: <3576@diku.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 18:18:23 GMT
References: <593@inria.UUCP>
Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK
Lines: 16
Keywords: .C versus .c

In article <593@inria.UUCP> shapiro@inria.UUCP (Marc Shapiro) writes:

>There is a proposal (by the FSF people) to use the .C (capital C) extension
>to name C++ source files, instead of .c.  This should make a few things more
>efficient (e.g. choosing editor modes) and would allow to mix C and C++
>sources in a non-confusing way.

>I think the idea is perfectly reasonable, if ATT adopts it.  The distributed
>CC could be prepared to accept either .c or .C in order not to break any
>exisiting programs, but future programs should only use the .C extension.

>What do you think?

The CC script for version 1.2.1 of the compiler accepts both .c and .C

Rene' Seindal (seindal@diku.UUCP).