Excluding parts of "03 utils.arc", the above is roughly the minimum needed to define Arc, the "import" macro, and the REPL.
They are loaded in numeric order, but that's controlled by the "arc" executable, so there's nothing stopping you from changing the order, or adding new non-numeric files[1], etc.
Everything else is put into either the "app" or "lib" folder, and none of the files in either folder are numbered.
This means the numbers are purely for documentation purposes, to help people see which parts go where. In particular, changing the numbers doesn't change the order in which things are loaded: you need to make the changes in the "arc" executable.
I think this is a good blend between not being too cumbersome, improving the visibility of order (which matters), and allowing fine-grained control of order.
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* [1]: As an example of that, the "arc" executable also loads "lib/strings.arc" and "lib/re.arc" in addition to the above.
Interesting. It doesn't address fallintothis's pain point though -- he still needs to remember the numeric prefix to navigate between the files.
As an experiment I've added a script that creates more mnemonic symlinks to all the files in the repo:
$ git clone http://github.com/akkartik/wart.git
$ cd wart
$ git checkout 8332909aec # Unnecessary except for visitors in the far future
$ ./denum # New helper
$ vim -O assign.wart mutate.wart # etc.
I'm going to play with keeping these symlinks around and see how much I use them.
