[erlang-questions] Generally agreed file extension...

[Fred Hebert]

On 09/02, zxq9 wrote:
>We have .erl, .hrl, .beam, .ez and .app file extensions in common use.
>
>Is there any generally agreed upon file extension for files that contain data formatted for use by file:consult/2?
>

I've used filename.consult quite a few times. Otherwise, the .config 
format for Erlang is close to that. In the most cases though, people 
appear to use extensions that explain what the file contains and not its 
format, oddly enough.

sys.config uses the format, although it asks for a full list of terms:

    [{App1, CfgList1,
     {App2, CfgList2,
     ...
     {AppN, CfgListN}].

the .app (and .app.src) files use the consult format as well, and so do 
various ones like rebar.config, rebar.lock, relx.config, elvis.config, 
common_test's .spec files, etc.