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by dkersten 853 days ago
But if you open the source directory, “every” file is a castle file.

I already know which files are castle files because they’re in the castle directory. It’s redundant information and it makes it hard to browse the files, eg I now need to scroll my file browser in my IDE to the right (so can no longer see directory names), Dane for tab labels snd file path breadcrumbs (on GitHub and in IDE), and on GitHub at least on mobile which is how I viewed it, it cuts the filename off after a certain length.

So I disagree that it’s a meaningless nitpick, it directly affects how easily I can navigate and read the file names. Just because yacc does it too doesn’t make it good (but at least in yacc’s case it’s not redundant information to know they are generated files, unless you put them in a yacc directory)