larsbj@gullik.net (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes:
"John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> writes:
Is there a good reason that the config library needs to use a "creative" choice of file extensions rather than the boost standard of ".*pp"?
| Well they're not really complete .cpp files,
What makes something a "complete .cpp file?"
and they're not headers as such | either - more like snippets of code that get #included by various other | files (the .cpp ones, and the configure script), so I wanted something | distinctive to separate them from regular source and header files.
Then perhaps using some extension that is not a common C++ extension would be better?
Err. The whole point of using ".hpp" was so that we could quickly search through all the C++ source files with a simple filename globbing pattern. This is one of the first conventions we established, at Nico's wise insistence. At least use ".ipp", please! -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com