From: blakemor@software.org (Alex Blakemore)
Subject: Re: File name conventions for Ada units
Date: 3 Oct 90 17:00:25 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1682@software.software.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2152@enea.se
In article <2152@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
> Coming from the VMS world I find this strange. The normal file type for Ada
> files is .ADA, and if you use it you have to tell that to the
> compiler, but if you prefer .FOR you can do so.
You mean if you follow the .Ada convention, you DON'T have to tell
the compiler. I agree enforced file name suffixes are unreasonable.
Even better, some systems (e.g. Rational) don't view source as files
- you edit the actual library units. This problem never arises.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1990-09-28 20:25 File name conventions for Ada units SSUID Craig E Warsaw
1990-09-29 16:29 ` stt
1990-09-29 22:04 ` Dan Rittersdorf
1990-10-01 14:56 ` David Emery
1990-10-06 14:37 ` Rik Palo
1990-09-30 2:49 ` Michael Feldman
1990-10-02 17:10 ` arny.b.engelson
1990-10-04 15:05 ` Michael Feldman
1990-10-02 21:55 ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-10-03 2:00 ` Alan Adamson
1990-10-03 17:00 ` Alex Blakemore [this message]
1990-10-04 9:37 ` Mike Harrison
1990-10-04 12:10 ` Robert Firth
1990-10-04 1:55 ` Michael Feldman
1990-10-04 17:22 ` Brian Hanafee
1990-10-08 17:33 ` Andy DeFaria
1990-10-11 8:59 ` Dan Bernstein
1990-10-12 5:29 ` Andy DeFaria
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1990-10-05 12:04 munck
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