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John Colvin john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Wed Jun 5 07:31:32 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 14:17:43 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 11:30:10 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> Although I think you're right about having smaller modules, I 
>> generally find it easier to browse through a larger file than 
>> many smaller files.
>>
>> Multiple files is ok if you know what you're looking for 
>> (grep) but when you're just trying to scan across a system to 
>> get a feel for how it's working, juggling many files is a real 
>> pita.
>
> Use an editor with a file tree sidebar? Quite on the contrary, 
> I find many files to be much preferable, because you 
> automatically have "bookmarks" in the source to come back to, 
> and having the functionality already grouped in manageable 
> logical units saves you from inferring that structure again, as 
> it is the case when scrolling through a huge file.
>
> On a lighter note, if it's really a problem for you that module 
> files are too small, what about just concatenating all the 
> files in a given directory using a little shell magic? ;)
>
> David

Agreed.

To be honest, it's a trivial matter easily solved by a variety of 
tools, but I'm often just lazy and end up reading code with gedit 
or similar.


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