Tim, it's a pity you weren't around to tell Sun not to use the .java and .class four letter extensions :)
The only OSs I can think of which could not handle more than 3 characters is DOS and possibly Win 3.1. Even if someone managed to get a JVM running on either of those platforms, do we really care?! :) --- In [email protected], "Tim Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
