Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension
Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension
- Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension
- From: Brian Webster <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:50:35 -0600
I remember this question being asked at Stump the Experts at WWDC a few
years back. The official answer from the Apple gurus was that the .m
stood for "messages".
On Nov 22, 2003, at 2:50 PM, Prachi Gauriar wrote:
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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