Hi -

Over on this GitHub issue:

 https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/issues/6283

we're considering changing the default executable
name. Right now, if you have a foo.chpl like this:

 // foo.chpl
 writeln("Hi");

and then if you run:

 $ chpl foo.chpl

it will produce an executable named a.out
(following the tradition of C compilers).

We're proposing to change it to name the executable
foo in that case. More generally, the proposal is to
base the executable name off of whatever the compiler
decides is the main module.

We're interested in feedback on this direction.
Also, we'd like to try this time to get feedback on
the GitHub issue itself, so please try that first
if you want to comment. (If for some reason you're
not able to comment on the GitHub issue, go ahead
and reply here. I'll try to summarize such replies
on the GitHub issue).

Thanks,

-michael

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