[boost] Re: Header extension poll

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-07-12 19:29:18

At 04:50 PM 7/12/99 -0700, Reid Sweatman wrote:

>>        A) .h
>>        B) .hpp
>>        C) Left up to submitter
>
>I've never really liked .hpp, but of the choices given, it's the one
I'd
>choose, precisely because of the makefile issue.  There are other
programs
>that base some judgements on extension, too, like editors (for
instance,
>MultiEdit, which I use by preference, although it currently doesn't
>distinguish between C and C++.  It could, however, with very little
>modification).

I am leaning toward .hpp, myself, unless someone comes up with a
killer argument.

By the way, the date for poll to open is Wednesday, the 14th, at
12:00 noon, EDT, and it will close on Friday, the 16th, at 4 PM, EDT.
 The original post said "Friday, the 17".  Sigh.

>I was wondering, though, why not follow the STL convention of using
*no*
>extension (although I realize that such files are usually merely
wrappers
>that include a more conventional header).

Better to leave *no* extension to the standards committee, I think.
Too many utility programs (grep, IDE multi-file searches, etc.) work
better if they have an extension to chew on.

--Beman

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