what should be the default extension?

2008-01-04 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Perl scripts have had the extension *.pl To distinguish the scripts I started writing in perl6 from those in the same directory written for perl5, I started naming perl6 scripts with extension *.p6 . Trivial question, I suppose, but any reason not to use p6? What will the perl6 compiler look

Re: what should be the default extension?

2008-01-04 Thread Darren Duncan
To be brief, file extensions for both programs and modules should remain exactly the same, .pl and .pm, between Perl 5 and Perl 6. Perl 5 and Perl 6 code are differentiated by what the files contain, not by their file name extensions. For example, what their internal 'use 6' vs 'use 5' lines s