Something like 'DECLARE SUB' for Statements (Forward declarartions)

[thyslo]

In a piece of code I have some Statements (Functions).

They all must be declared and implemented before using them, e.g.

Statement multiplicateMatrix{sx, sy, i}
  Shared Points()
  Points(i)\x = sx * Points(i)\x
  Points(i)\y = sy * Points(i)\y
End Statement


For i=0 To points_count
  multiplicateMatrix{sx, sy, i}
Next i

In AmigaBASIC there was a way to forward declare functions and put their implementations at the end of the code file:

DECLARE SUB multiplicateMatrix(sx, sy)

...

For i=0 To points_count
  Call multiplicateMatrix(sx, sy, i)
Next i

...

SUB s.transform(sx, sy, i)
  SHARED x.points, y.points
  x.points(i) = sx*x.points(i)
  y.points(i) = sy*y.points(i)
End SUB

Is there something similar in BlitzBasic which would allow to put the implementation of all functions (Statements and Procedures) to the end of a file?

[Daedalus]

Nope, there's no way to do that. Usually what I do is store the functions and statements in a separate file and include that at the top of my main source file. That keeps them from filling up most of the listing.

[thyslo]

Thank you, and especially for the hint with the extra file for the functions. I'll probably do the same:-)