PIR/PASM/PBC files without extensions

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Jan 19 19:44:15 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:56:09AM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
> I'm about to add a deprecation notice for a feature I thought I rejected 
> a couple of years ago. Quick check first to see if anyone's using it, or 
> planning to use it.
> 
> The feature is the ability to load_bytecode without a file extension, 
> and have it try '.pbc', '.pasm', and '.pir' to see if such a file exists.

AFAIK, none of PGE, PCT, Rakudo, or any of the tools I'm working with
expect to use load_bytecode without a file extension.  If they do,
it wouldn't bother me to have them changed so that they don't.

Pm


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