Re: Use of .pl versus .plx file extensions

am I making a big deal over nothing?

Yes. Perl itself doesn't care, it only cares about .pmc? extentions. So, whether you use an extention at all for your program, and if you use an extention, which one to use, is a local decision. Your OS or your webserver might require an extention to have it run as a Perl program, but in that case, you have to configure your OS or your webserver to use what ever fancies you.

Unix OSses don't care. While some OSses use an extention of the file name to determine what kind of file they are, Unix make use of magic bytes in the content of the file. Both "solutions" are annoying, prune to errors and are inferior to solutions that separate meta-information from the data.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Use of .pl versus .plx file extensions by Anomynous Monk (Scribe) on Mar 16, 2004 at 03:34 UTC
Oh no! Not the dreaded .pmc extension! Blot it out! Pretend it doesn't exist! Down with ByteLoader!	[reply]
Re: Re: Use of .pl versus .plx file extensions by bradcathey (Prior) on Mar 16, 2004 at 12:47 UTC
Thanks, Abigail II. I guess I'm not only interested in what strikes me as useful, but possibly those that follow. I.e., will my choices help or hender the next programmer that has to deal with my code (you know, after I get run over by a bus)? —Brad "A little yeast leavens the whole dough."	[reply]
Re: Use of .pl versus .plx file extensions by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Mar 16, 2004 at 12:54 UTC
I'd say avoid the programmer who's either bothered by having a .pl or .plx extention, or for whom such an extention is really helpful. For a good programmer, it shouldn't matter. Abigail	[reply]