Re: Use of .pl versus .plx file extensions

True, but the same can be said for extensions of graphics. Todays .jpg might be tomorrows .png. Yet, people often find it useful to give their graphics an extension. Given that, I don't find it surprising they want to give their Perl programs an extension.

Usually, I don't give my Perl programs extensions - although sometimes, I do (mostly to trigger my editor to go into Perl mode).

Abigail

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Re: Re: Use of .pl versus .plx file extensions by Eyck (Priest) on Mar 17, 2004 at 12:15 UTC
This shouldn't be necessary as long as you use shebang `#!/usr/bin(whatever)/perl` in your scripts. Both emacs and vim recognize files this way.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Use of .pl versus .plx file extensions by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Mar 17, 2004 at 13:00 UTC
Sure, my editor recognizes that too. But I don't know about your OS, but if I start editing a new file, the file starts out without any characters in it. Meaning, not even a shebang line. Furthermore, imported code (say, from perlmonks), doesn't always have a shebang line. Abigail	[reply]