Forum Post: RE: Listing Source directories in PROPATH; Does each subdirectory need to be...

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The PROPATH needs to contain whatever needs to go in front of what is in the code in order to resolve the filename. FWIW, I think it is very bad practice to limit the code to minimal filenames and thus to require many, many directories in the PROPATH. It is a big impact on performance because it has to look sequentially in each of the directories for the filename and it creates possible confusion with the same file name in multiple places. It also removes potentially valuable context information from the code.

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