Wish List: Hyperlinks

[townsendEbmud]

When working in a package body, I often use the feature of holding the Ctrl key down and clicking on a procedure reference to jump to the definition of that procedure. Love it!

But if the procedure is defined only in the body, I have to do a forward declaration near the top of the code. In this case, the Ctrl-click takes me to the forward declaration and not the definition. It would be neat if a second Ctrl-click would navigate to the next occurrence of the procedure, which would be the definition, or an overload of the definition.

TIA.

 

[ScottMattes]

Ah, why do you *have to* do the forward declare?

 

[Marco Kalter]

I have added this to the list of enhancement requests. The Code Contents needs to do something similar.

 

[townsendEbmud]

To answer Scott Mattes' question, procedures occurring only in the body either have to occur in the body before they are used by other procedures in the body, or they can be forward declared and used even before they are defined in the body. Rather than having to be cognizant of the placement of these procedures in code, I always forward declare them so they can be used anywhere. Since these are usually utility procedures and not the core reason for the package to exist, I put them at the end of the body and save the top of the body for the core code. Not a *have to* but a strong personal preference.

 

[ScottMattes]

OK, knew about that, just wondering if I was missing something.