[fpc-devel] Circular references and forward declarations

[Flávio Etrusco]

>
> To summarize: From the language/compiler point of view, large files are
> no problem. We already concluded that, and in some cases the language
> even forces you to use large files.
>
> But, from a personal - human point of view, large files are not always
> nice. At least, some people think so. They want to have some overview
> over the file, or have some preference for one class in a file. (Why?
> Well, people are not  logic entities, they can not handle very complex
> things) Yes, an IDE can help with that.

This reminds me of a component (or something) I intend(ed) to
implement to interactively navigate a synedit view with zoom. The
usage I envisioned for it was the file comparison tool (Pariter) I
started based on Angus Johnson's diff, but I think it would be
interesting to any source code editor...

Cheers,
Flávio