<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 26, 2017, at 9:37 PM, Charles Srstka <<a href="mailto:cocoadev@charlessoft.com" class="">cocoadev@charlessoft.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 26, 2017, at 11:21 PM, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I wonder if there is a different type of UI solution which might help people who hate dividing things up into lots of small files.</span><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">I find the way that I work is to make a super large file while I work, and then break it down into smaller files once the main design is in place and has settled. I find one file easier while things are in flux, but many (well grouped) small files easier for reference and maintenance.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you have used programs like Ulysses or Scrivener, they allow you to select multiple sections/files and then those sections show one after another in the editing UI with a divider between them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I know we don’t have control over Xcode here, but we could certainly recommend such a feature to those who do. Basically, if you select a group (or multiple files), it would show the contents of each file placed in order so you could edit across them. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would something like that help? (I am mainly trying to get a sense of the underlying goals of those on both sides of this argument).</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For your tiny helper type, you want it to be only visible to the type it helps. If it’s in a separate file, it has to be visible to the entire module.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Then you could keep it in the same file. As you said, the helper type is tiny.</div></div><br class=""><div class="">(or once we have submodules, I suppose you could put it somewhere else in the submodule, if desired)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Jon</div></body></html>