Richard Hainsworth skribis 2008-01-05 0:14 (+0300): > Perl scripts have had the extension *.pl
I usually only give throw-away scripts a .pl extension. Others I call "program" and make executable, with no extension. > Trivial question, I suppose, but any reason not to use .p6? It will look incredibly silly once we're used to Perl 6. I've seen .pl5 in a really old codebase in which .pl stood for Perl 4, and giggled about it. OTOH, I do think Perl 6 is a new language (and should not be called Perl) and will probably adopt the same .p6 scheme. I've even on occasion called it Perl6 and expressed the wish for a 1.0.0 release, rather than a 6.0.0 release. > What will the perl6 compiler look for? Note that Perl 5's perl doesn't "look for" the .pl extension. It's a convention, not enforced in any way that I know of. > Ditto for modules: Modules can keep .pm, and the interpreter can tell whether it's Perl 5 or Perl 6, because Perl 6 modules have different keywords. Personally I'm hoping for some extra abstraction in module filenames, to allow UTF-8 module names with ASCII filenames. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
