Re: [fpc-pascal] Extension .pp or .pas

2008-01-11 Thread Matt Emson
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: As far as I know .pp is the old 'classical' file extension. .pas is the new more widely know (I think) extension for Object Pascal. I prefer .pas personally. I had never seen .pp before FPC. In all the Delphi/Turbo Pascal I'd used, it was always .pas. On the Mac

[fpc-pascal] Extension .pp or .pas

2008-01-11 Thread Damien Gerard
I am starting a new project and I worry about filename conventions. It is possible to use .pp or .pas for fpc source files. Lazarus creates .pas files AFAIK. The project will be a console application. Is there some existing conventions (from history or something else) or we totally don't

Re: [fpc-pascal] Extension .pp or .pas

2008-01-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
As far as I know .pp is the old 'classical' file extension. .pas is the new more widely know (I think) extension for Object Pascal. I prefer .pas personally. FPC doesn't mind which one you use. Regards, - Graeme - On 11/01/2008, Damien Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am starting a new

Re: [fpc-pascal] Extension .pp or .pas

2008-01-11 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:55:40 + Matt Emson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was .pp the UNIX standard? Suspecting the analogy with .c and .cc, I guess it was .p in the non-OO era and .pp with objects. John ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Extension .pp or .pas

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: As far as I know .pp is the old 'classical' file extension. .pas is the new more widely know (I think) extension for Object Pascal. I prefer .pas personally. There is nothing 'classical' or 'new' about either extension. .pp was in accordance

Re: [fpc-pascal] Extension .pp or .pas

2008-01-11 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 11 Jan 2008, at 16:41, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: As far as I know .pp is the old 'classical' file extension. .pas is the new more widely know (I think) extension for Object Pascal. I prefer .pas personally. There is nothing 'classical' or

Re: [fpc-pascal] Extension .pp or .pas

2008-01-11 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Fri, January 11, 2008 16:41, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: As far as I know .pp is the old 'classical' file extension. .pas is the new more widely know (I think) extension for Object Pascal. I prefer .pas personally. There is nothing