"Walter Bright" <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:f8u0mu$e3p$1@digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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>> Wouldn't the ".d" extension give it away as "not C/C++"?
>
> Not really, as a lot of spiders (including google's) do not recognize the extension as meaning D source.

So what does Google's code search go on instead?

Stewart. 

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:f8u0mu$e3p$1@digitalmars.com...
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> <snip>
>>> Wouldn't the ".d" extension give it away as "not C/C++"?
>>
>> Not really, as a lot of spiders (including google's) do not recognize the extension as meaning D source.
> 
> So what does Google's code search go on instead?
> 
> Stewart.

Presumably they've now added .d/.di extensions to their filters in the process of adding lang:d.  Presumably.  Or it guesses on some heuristic.  (It is Google.  I wouldn't be surprised.)

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls

"Chris Nicholson-Sauls" <ibisbasenji@gmail.com> wrote in message news:f956qb$2ob3$2@digitalmars.com...
<snip>
> Presumably they've now added .d/.di extensions to their filters in the process of adding lang:d.  Presumably.  Or it guesses on some heuristic. (It is Google.  I wouldn't be surprised.)

Technically, it should go on MIME types, at least when dealing with code files placed directly on the WWW rather than in a zip file or the like.

Sadly,
- not all hosts are configured to deliver the correct MIME type for program code files
- it isn't always easy or even possible to change the configuration so that it does
- some browsers have poor handling of such MIME types, leading some people who put code on the web not to bother getting it right.

Stewart.