On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Martin Jambor <mjam...@suse.cz> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 08:42:16AM -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to suggest that new implementation files have >> the '.cc' extension, unless they are meant to be processed >> with a C compiler. (I am not proposing wholesale renaming.) >> > > I do not care very much but I disagree. Having some files with .c > suffix and some with .cc suffix would imply some sort of difference > where there is going to be none. Much more confusing than C++ > compiled .c files, especially to newcomers, I suppose... and I though > we cared about them, that's the reason why I'm writing this email. I > will not be surprised by this myself, so I can live with it. > > Martin
We do care about newcomers, but with all these new projects for refactoring, rewrites going on, I think you are worrying about things that may start "big" now but will be vanishing as the GCC project lives on. -- Gaby