Re: Extensions calling C++

At 11:55 PM 7/9/00 +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:

At 23:47 09/07/2000, Sascha Schumann wrote:

On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote:

At 23:08 09/07/2000, Sascha Schumann wrote:

.cpp sucks, because cpp is the C preprocessor.

Is that a common convention? I don't think gcc generates .cpp files (you choose which file to redirect it to..?)

Nope, it is just the name which is misleading. Imagine a file called foo.lex which is handled by yacc.

Well, I for once would have never been mislead by .cpp; I suspect most others would also expect .cpp to be C++ and not a preprocessed C file, going all the way back to the days of Turbo C++. What do the rest of you think?

I use .cpp for all of my C++ projects. Never had any problems with it both using g++ and using other UNIX such as IRIX C++ compilers. Andi --- Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/