"John Maddock" <john@[...].uk>  writes:

> > >>Err.  The whole point of using ".hpp" was so that we could quickly
> > >>search through all the C++ source files with a simple filename
> > >>globbing pattern.  This is one of the first conventions we
> > >>established, at Nico's wise insistence.  At least use ".ipp", please!
> 
> > I don't care whether it's ipp, hpp, cpp, or foopp as long as it ends
> > in pp.
> 
>  OK, look when I have the time I'll try and change them to *.ipp.
> 
>  However, please note that I could find nothing about this in the Boost
>  Guidelines page (just a line about using *.hpp for headers), so you may want
>  to update those pages.

Yeah, probably a good idea.  I think it's just that nobody imagined
anyone wanting other than cpp and hwhatever at the time, and so the
guideline was written down but the rationale was lost.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com

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