# Organizing structures in a package
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/organizing-structures-in-a-package/83979
**Category:** Package Management
**Tags:** code-organization
**Created:** [July 9, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/organizing-structures-in-a-package/83979 "2022-07-09T05:59:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@RobertGregg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RobertGregg)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/organizing-structures-in-a-package/83979/1 "2022-07-09T05:59:05Z")
If I’m developing a package where `file1.jl` contains a struct called `struct1` and `file2.jl` has a struct called `struct2` as well as a function that took those two structs as input, what would be the best way to organize this?
Currently in the main module for the package I just include the first file before the second. Is that confusing? Should I move `include("file1.jl")` to the second file? Am I thinking too hard about this? 😮💨 From an organizational standpoint it makes sense to have the structs in separate files.
Also sorry if this is like blatantly obvious in the documentation. I still new to package development in general.
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### Author:  [@ffevotte](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ffevotte)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/organizing-structures-in-a-package/83979/2 "2022-07-09T08:18:03Z")
The way you’re doing it now seems fine to me.
> [@RobertGregg](#):
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> Currently in the main module for the package I just include the first file before the second. Is that confusing? Should I move `include("file1.jl")` to the second file? Am I thinking too hard about this? 😮💨 From an organizational standpoint it makes sense to have the structs in separate files.
I don’t think it’s confusing to include `file1.jl` and `file2.jl` from the main top-level source file. It does make sense to have the structs and associated functions/methods grouped in separate files. In that case, the convention is to name the source files after the struct names (e.g. something like `my_struct.jl` for a struct named `MyStruct`).
As for the function that works on both your types, you could leave it in `file2.jl`; this is especially appropriate if there is a dissymmetry in the relationships between your function and both files, and there is a reason to “favor” the function definition being more closely tied to `struct2` than `struct1`. But you can also move the function to a third `feature.jl` file, which would be more symmetric. Alternately, you could move it to the main, top-level source file, right after both includes.
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### Author:  [@RobertGregg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RobertGregg)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/organizing-structures-in-a-package/83979/3 "2022-07-09T15:47:26Z")
Thank you for the reply. Moving the function to a third file is actually a pretty good idea for this case.