Re: [MacPerl] Installing modules.

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 15:14 -0400 98/09/21, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
> .plx is what I and others are using a lot for perl scripts, since .pl is
> specifically meant for Perl library.

"specifically meant for"?  By whom?  Documented where?  What programs
assume this?

.pm is documented as the expected ending for a perl module (you leave out
the .pm in a "use" statement and Perl will supply it) and .ph is/was
conventional (?  now deprecated?) for perl "headers" but where and when did
.pl get picked up for a library?  A "library" in Perl 4 was just a script
to include.  I always thought the .pl extension meant, simply, perl.
Besides, I thought we didn't "do" plain ol vanilla libraries anymore. :-)

I've heard this about ".pl" before but have never seen a pointer to a
reliable source (like a page in the Camel book) to confirm it. Even if it
was a convention for perl 4, I doubt it's still a recommended or necessary
convention for perl 5.  But I'd like to see it written down in any case.

Continuing to use .pl as the suffix on my scripts...

- Vicki
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