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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
August 28, 2001 09:53
Subject:
Re: Something to hash out
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.21.0108281154470.22495-100000@tuatha.sidhe.org
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:

> Simon Cozens writes:
> > I was using .pas and .pac. Gotta think about 8.3ness, unfortunately.
> 
> .pas is generally Pascal.
> 
> I also think it's important we choose extensions based around their
> humour potential.  With that in mind, I propose:
> 
>   .par for Parrot source, and .pao for Parrot Objects would be cool.

I like it. It's a race between those and Randal's .par and .rot (for the
bytecode) extensions.

> Actually, are these the only two types of file we're going to
> generate?  Won't there be unoptimized bytecode, parse trees, etc?  Do
> we want an integrated set of extensions (.pa?)?

All that goes into the bytecode files. There probably won't be separate
files for 'em.

					Dan
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