On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:58:38AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> I don't know if .h is officially deprecated now, but it probably will be in 
> the future at some point.  Referring to C++ headers without the .h is part 
> of the C++ "standard" now (mentioned in my reference book on standard C++). 
> The intent is to visually separate the old C headers from the new C++ ones. 
> For the old headers you still use .h, but for the C++ headers you
> don't.

This is true for the Standard C++ Library only. Other libraries are free
to use whatever extensions they want. For example, boost uses .hpp.

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