Re: .h.in vs .in.h

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 04/11/2012 03:24 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 11-Apr-2012, Júlio Hoffimann wrote:
>
> | Well, if i understood correctly, why not just do a trivial `grep ... *.h 
> *.h.in
>
> I often forget that there are .in files.
>
> | ' ? If targeting only Bash (what i think is not the case), you can be even
> | more compact: grep *.{h,h.in}
>
> I also often do things like
>
>    find . -name '*.h' -o -name '*.cc' | xargs grep ...
>
> to find files in the entire directory tree.
>
> | It's strange having *.in.h files.
>
> How is it any stranger than having .h.in files?

Just the fact that the extension is .h and the file really isn't a 
header file.  The only confusion I could see arising is if some IDE (is 
this done anywhere?  Windows compilation perhaps?) might interpret a 
.in.h file as a header file.

Dan