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@ -142,9 +142,17 @@ care about. Boost list posters are
encouraged to include keywords in the subject like "thread",
&quot;review&quot;, and &quot;CVS&quot; to aid message filtering.</p>
<p><b>Why do Boost headers have a .hpp suffix rather than .h or none at all?</b>
File extensions communicate the &quot;type&quot; of the file, both to humans and
to computer programs. The '.h' extension is used for C header files, and
therefore communicates the wrong thing about C++ header files. Using no
extension communicates nothing and forces inspection of file contents to
determine type. Using '.hpp' unambiguously identifies it as C++ header file, and
works well in actual practice. (Rainer Deyke)</p>
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