Re: [PHP-DEV] Extensions calling C++ From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 07/10/00

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 

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