From: paul b. <pau...@md...> - 2005-03-09 18:43:52
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I think the .pl extension is useful - speaking as an idealist who has given up just enough principles to now be grateful when there's progress. paul >>To me, the issue is including the .pl to support reading files that are >>used by or shared with other prologs. Macros are good for giving the >>ability to change things, but .pl is imposed on us by the world. So I >>don't seem much of a reason to make .pl into a macro. What could be >>useful would be the ability to turn looking for .pl on and off. > > > The issue is readability. It the world imposes on us that FOOBAR always > equals 351, it doesn't mean that a good program should use 351 as a constant > instead of FOOBAR (because everybody knows that FOOBAR is foobar, but > only a few know that 351 is also a foobar from now on). > |