On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 10:26, Martin Jambor wrote: > I have already missed stuff when grepping because I did not include *.cc > files and the inconsistency is also just ugly and must be very confusing > to anyone who encounters it for the first time.
Yes, and it affects tooling like syntax highlighting and indenting rules in editors. I think that's one of the strongest arguments in favour of renaming them. Apart from that, I don't have any strong opinion either way (libstdc++ has always used .cc and I rarely touch the rest of the compiler).