On Wed, September 12, 2007 11:15 am, Joel Uckelman wrote:

> There's no gain that I see from having logs be .vlog and saves be .vsave.
> .log and .sav are just as informative. There might be some filesystems
> still in use which balk at having more than 3 characters after the last
> dot, also.

And don't forget the operating systems between the users' ears ;)

Semi-jesting - rightly or wrongly, a vast majority of people *expect* "the
thing after the dot" to be three characters.  Doing something else needs a
good justification.

Cheers,
Tim.


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