Re: [ooc-compiler] Filename Extension

[Isaac G. <ig...@ya...>]

iirc XDS Oberon-2 uses .ob2 but also allows the extension to be
redefined.

--- August Karlstrom <fus...@co...> wrote:

> Stewart Greenhill wrote:
> > Section 15 of Wirth's Modula-2 definition (1980) describes the 
> > implementation of the Modula compiler for the PDP-11 computer. It 
> > recommends that ".MOD" be used for "program modules", ".DEF" for 
> > "definition modules", and ".SYM" for symbol files. All of the 
> > descendants of Modula seem to have adopted these same conventions.
> 
> Well, for MODula (implementation) files ".MOD" is of course the
> natural 
> choice. It was probably kept for Oberon files as they too contain
> MODules.
> 
> By the way, I tried to use oo2c with the ".obn" extension and... it 
> works. When I first tried that I forgot to recompile all imported 
> modules, so I falsely concluded that it wasn't possible. Sorry. On
> the 
> other hand, in oowhereis I noticed the the constant declaration
> 
>     moduleExtension = ".Mod";
> 
> > Its true that there are other uses for the ".MOD" extension, but I
> think 
> > you'll find that Wirth's use (>25 years) probably pre-dates most of
> the 
> > alternatives.
> 
> Sure, but why not avoid potential problems and use ".obn" instead? 
> However, since (at least) oo2c seems to support arbitrary file 
> extensions, everyone is free to choose their own preferred extension.
> 
> 
> August
> 
> 
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