Splitting swift files into multiple files without the use of extensions

[xwu (Xiaodi Wu)]

@Jeehut

I would like to add another use case to the discussion. While I'm not completely sold on the advantages of splitting a file within a project, I think splitting up files would definitely make sense for Swift scripting. At the moment, when you write a script in Swift (without a project around it) to run some tasks and that script gets a little bigger and you want to organize it, you have to create a project instead.

While some may say that this is by design, I think it is holding back many cool Swift scripts and is an unnecessary limitation staying in the way of "world domination" or even the goals for Swift 6 to become a more attractive language for cross-platform usage – people from other scripting languages take a possibility to import other Swift files for granted as it's a very common and flexibly useful feature.

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