From: Heath Holcomb <bluetea@...>
Date: 2002-04-11T08:18:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Addition to file.c (File.extension)

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:19:22 +0900,
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
>>|> Uh, but that seems too dosish for me....  Nowadays there's so many
>>|> people who lives on Windows environments, and they don't doubt `.ext'
>>|> is called `extension', but also there's those who are familiar to more
>>|> generic `suffix'.
>>|
>>|I vote it.
>>
>>"suffix" maybe better than "extension", but it too have same ambiguity.
>>Notice it's "File.suffix", not "FileName.suffix".
> 
> 
> I'm not against "extname", however, is there "suffix" of file
> other than name?
> 

That was my thought too. I would lean towards "suffix" personally. As 
far as "extname" goes, I don't think it's as clear as "suffix". It's 
probably better to avoid using an abbreviated word if possible. extname 
could be "extended name", "extension name", etc... there's some 
ambiguity there. Also, neither of those seems quite the same to me as 
"file name extension" or "file name suffix".

Heath

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