Re: .pm and .pl files.

2005-04-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Jay" == Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jay> I respectfully disagree. I blame Richard Stallman for my habits, not Jay> Bill Gates, et. al. 'emacs test' when creating a file opens it in Jay> Text Fill, but 'emacs test.pl' when creating a file saves me 'M-x Jay> perl-mode' (or 'M-x Cp

Re: .pm and .pl files.

2005-04-01 Thread Jay Savage
On 30 Mar 2005 07:07:56 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Chris" == Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chris> By convention, the .pm extension denotes Perl modules -- libraries used > Chris> by other scripts but not run directly -- and .pl denotes Perl scripts > -- > Chris> pro

RE: .pm and .pl files.

2005-04-01 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Mike Lesser wrote: : Is the library file thing passe? I was going to put some stuff in a : library, but I get the impression that I should jump right to a pm. : As a newbie this is a little daunting. I use .pl for scripts and .pm for modules. Modules can be daunting

Re: .pm and .pl files.

2005-04-01 Thread Mike Lesser
So if we don't want to be like dweebs, it's no extension for scripts, pl for libraries? What's weird is that many of the O'Reily books I have use the pl... so I blame them. Is the library file thing passe? I was going to put some stuff in a library, but I get the impression that I should jump

Re: .pm and .pl files.

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Chris" == Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chris> By convention, the .pm extension denotes Perl modules -- libraries > Chris> used by other scripts but not run directly -- and .pl denotes Perl > Chris> scripts -- programs that *

Re: .pm and .pl files.

2005-03-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chris" == Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> By convention, the .pm extension denotes Perl modules -- libraries used Chris> by other scripts but not run directly -- and .pl denotes Perl scripts -- Chris> programs that *are* meant to be run directly. Not scripts. Libraries.

Re: .pm and .pl files.

2005-03-30 Thread John W. Krahn
Srikrishna Raghammudi wrote: Can Any body pls tell me the differnece between .pm and .pl files. .pl was used in Perl4 and earlier to designate Perl Libraries and when Perl5 came out .pm was used to designate Perl Modules. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: .pm and .pl files.

2005-03-29 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Srikrishna Raghammudi wrote: > Can [anybody] [please] tell me the differnece between .pm and .pl > files[question mark] By convention, the .pm extension denotes Perl modules -- libraries used by other scripts but not run directly -- and .pl denotes Perl scripts -- programs