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OT: Meaning of .m extension
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  • Subject: OT: Meaning of .m extension
  • From: Prachi Gauriar <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:50:06 -0600

Hi everyone. I've been teaching some friends Cocoa and they're really loving it. About a week ago they asked me why Objective-C source files end in .m. I remember wondering the same thing at the time I started with Objective C... I mean, the file extension conventions for C, C++, Java, and Perl(.c, .cpp, .java, and .pl/.pm) are all fairly obvious. .m however makes very little sense. Regardless, I couldn't give my friends an answer, so I just said I'd try to figure it out and let em know later.

I've looked in Cocoa In a Nutshell (Beam/Davidson), Cocoa Programming (Anguish, Buck, Yacktman), and Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach (Cox), not to mention the archives and Google. No dice. The only thing I can think of is .m is for iMplementation.

Anyone have any ideas about this?

-Prachi
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