On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Marc Weber
Excerpts from David Fox's message of Fri Jun 28 04:04:59 +0200 2013:
So you will get modules Start.A, Start.B and Start.C. If there are
But that's very unlikly what the programmer wants. I mean I might want Types and Funs as module names, move A,B to Types, C to Funs.
I agree that I could reach my goal using a "merge" afterwards ?
Because some modules may have many symbols having that many files created feels strange.
Useful for the programmer (me?) would be:
up to line 200 move to A, from 200 till end move to module B
Even if you think the way to go is creating 50 files (because you happen to have 50 symbols) you may want to consider telling the user that he knows what to expect - and that you welcome patches to make this even nicer and more useful.
Marc Weber
Yes, these are issues that should be addressed by layers on top of what I have so far. I could even see this being integrated into an IDE. The split-in-two operation sounds very useful. As does mega-split warning. Moving a single symbol, or a list of symbols, sounds like another great option. I realized that split was not going to be the final solution, but it had a very simple signature and led to the implementation of all the mechanisms these nicer operations will require.