Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!mtune!westmark!dave
From: dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ source file names
Message-ID: <322@westmark.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 05:18:41 GMT
References: <593@inria.UUCP>
Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA
Lines: 21
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.

> What do you think?


I think this would make a number of things less efficient in
operating systems like MS-DOS where filenames are case-insensitive.
Why not give c++ source files an extension that is always
discernable from old .c files?


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Dave Levenson
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