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Re:Should you split that file? by gipp on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:47PM (#38490583)
I honestly wish more people would try to organize their files to be read top-to-bottom, it makes it much faster to grok something new.

But of course there are lots of other factors constraining the way a file can/should be ordered, depending on language

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Re:Should you split that file? by cellularmitosis on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:59PM (#38490722)
Yes, the "inverted pyramid" concept from journalism. Most important details up top, implementation details down below.

In our (Swift) codebase, this typically translates into "publicly-consumable interface up top, private and internal functions down below".

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