Re: [binarycloud-dev] Awwww man, facility, not policy!!!

[Odysseas T. <ody...@ya...>]

> path separator), kills me.  Why?  Because I, in my
> world,
> use:
> 
> 	*.layout	for layout template files
> 	*.master	for master templates files
> 	*.mod		for modules

As we are evolving BC towards the more makefile-driven
r2, we decided to standardize the various file type
extensions:
Makefiles need standard extensions so as there
are standard rules that can do one thing for one type
of a file and a different thing for another type of a
file. That's why if you write your C application
you are stuck ending all your files with .c etc etc.

> At first, I thought this "dot" thing was kind of
> interesting when I started looking around.  I
> wondered
> if there was a refugee from the Xanadu project now
> working on BC...

The package/import notation and functionality is
mimicking the package/import of java/perl etc.
As you have guessed, this feature puts an additional
requirement for a single source code extension. 

The packaging feature become a necessity
as you move from small software projects to big ones.
Languages that were built from the begining for large
scale programming, like Java, had that feature from
birth. 
Languages like perl, in their original versions
allowed any extension and lacked the packaging
functionality. As the perl applications became deeper
and deeper the packages were introduced. To use the
packages you had to name your files *.pm . 
In some ways PHP is like perl in its infancy. Projects
like BC are trying to enable its use not only for
web-site-making but also for more heavy duty web
applications and in that sense are forced to make use
of some of these more "advanced" features. 
 
odysseas

> 
> OK, I'll conform to your policy, for now, so I can
> keep going.  But I won't shut up on this one.  This
> is a real bitch, not gentle observation.
> 
> _jef
>  


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