[Lazarus] Include files extension

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco Aurelio Ramirez Carrillo wrote:
> I ignore if this topic ha been mentioned before on the mailing lists.
> 
> I work with several tools,
> including Lazarus, Delphi, and some C/C++ compilers.
> 
> I use indude files, frecuently, in several enviroments,
> ( "*.inc"). But, got mixed up with both,
> Pascal-related & C-related include files.
> 
> Altought FPC, allows you to include a text file with any extension, I
> would like to propose that the Lazarus I.D.E.
> explicitly allows an additional file extension,
> maybe "*.incpas", "*.ipas" or "*.incp".

Two points here. First, I don't think I've seen C/C++ include files 
named other than .h/.hpp, except where they're machine-generated code 
from a specialist processor. Second, the implications of any change 
would have to be considered on all platforms: having an assumed 
extension might be OK on Windows where a file almost always has an 
extension, but not on Unix where the executable normally doesn't.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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