5 Jul
2008
5 Jul
'08
7:04 a.m.
Vladimir Prus wrote:
The term "filename extension" is well established. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename_extension or google for "file extension".
Oh, using wikipedia and number of google hits to establish naming sounds interesting -- you can some up with random API. Note that "file extension" has 12'000'000 hits, whereas "file suffix" has 2'000'000 hits, which does not seem to be on overwhelming difference. Also, I don't know how to get google to produce hits only relevant to names of API function in some libraries.
In fact, here's what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename_extension has to say: A filename extension is a *suffix* to the name of a computer file - Volodya