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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Code organization
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:46:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:24:46 -0700, NiGHTS wrote:

> In one instance, I have a package that handles an xhtml object, but it
> has tons of interface functions and procedures to the object the package
> encapsulates. In this case I am frustrated by the ever-growing size of
> this source code. The procedures themselves may be grouped into
> categories, so it would have been nice to move some of these procedure
> bodies to other files.

Child packages may be your friend here - those categories sound a bit 
like child packages. They have some special visibility into the parent 
package that completely separate packages wouldn't.

-- Brian