[m-dev.] diff: centralize file-name handling

[David Matthew OVERTON]

Fergus Henderson wrote:
> 
> Estimated hours taken: 4.5
> 
> Change things so that almost all the places which create file names
> do so via just a few predicates (such as module_name_to_file_name)
> in modules.m.  Centralising the file handling in this way
> will make future changes to the file naming convention simpler.
> 
> (The one place which still creates file names other than via the predicates
> declared at the start of modules.m is mercury_compile__link_module_list.
> It creates them based on the value of the `-o <filename>' option.
> I didn't change that because I am not yet sure what the semantics of
> the `-o <filename>' option ought to be.)
> 
There is one other place where a file name is created.  In
`fact_table.m' a C source file is created by appending `.c' to the
fact table file name.


David
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