[plt-dev] .mzschemerc => .racketrc and more

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 27 08:29:24 EDT 2010

At Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:30:15 -0400, Guillaume Marceau wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> How about using a different suffix for "data in S-expression form" such
> >> as the prefs files. I interpret an .rkt suffix as indicating an
> >> executable program.
> >>
> >> Or the suffix could be dropped entirely.
> >
> > Yes, I think that removing the suffixes is a good idea.
> 
> Removing the suffixes makes them un-double-clickable in
> explorer/finder/nautilus. I would find that very annoying.
> 
> How about a .sexp suffix for non-executable, but READ-able file?

Kids won't know where the hyphen was dropped.

I don't have any particularly good ideas. ".rktd" for "Racket Data"?



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