would you be happy using a language where every file was in literate mode? i.e. prose at the top level, code only in delimited/nested blocks
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I wouldn't want to force my code into a linear presentation format only. Ie. I'd prefer it if I could have more than one way of viewing the program graph supported by my editor.
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Glamorous Toolkit has cool 'documenter' and 'explainer' views, for example:
- gtoolkit.com/components/doc
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I think this might be like how people debate whether to group source files in a directory tree - ideally you could get model/view/controller groupings _or_ domain groupings, depending on what you are doing at the time.
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I guess a counter to the 'why not both?' argument is that it might take work to maintain more than one 'view' when editing code (depending on how it is implemented). Still, I think it would be cool if we could figure it out!
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