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From: defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: File name conventions for Ada units
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Date: 8 Oct 90 17:33:48 GMT
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>/ hpclapd:comp.lang.ada / emery@linus.mitre.org (David Emery) /  7:56 am  Oct  1, 1990 /

>Incidently, I agree with Mike Feldman about the inconvience of compilers that
>force a specific naming convention, such as Verdix.  I've submitted a
>bug report to this effect to Verdix after every major release...
>
>				dave emery
>				emery@aries.mitre.org

I agree whole heartedly.  But doesn't  the C compiler require  .c?  This is
indeed  stupid.  IMHO, you should be  able  to say: ada  sourcefile and the
compiler should look for "sourcefile" first  and then "sourcefile.ada" next
(i.e.  you  could  have your own   naming conventions.  Also if  you   said
sourcefile.ads then the compiler should look only for sourcefile.ads.  This
allows you to  have a breifer  (?)  command  syntax if you  want (i.e.  ada
sourcefile compiles  "sourcefile.ada"  if  "sourcefile"  doesn't exist) and
allows you to override this either by having no .ada suffixed file or using
you own suffixes of your own choosing.