Re: std::pow implementation

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> writes:

| Op wo 30-07-2003, om 08:38 schreef Gabriel Dos Reis:
| > | > But, why don't you trust the programmer?  Why do you insist that you
| > | > know better than the programmer?
| > | 
| > | Because (1) inline is implicit in C++,
| > 
| > No, that is *your* invention.  Inline is NOT implicit.  That is just
| > an invention of people like you who prefer to ignore the purpose of
| > "inline".  Please, do give inline its original and obvious meaning. 
| 
| Hmm I really don't follow you.  If "inline" is not implicit, would that
| mean that for the (broken) example earlier in this thread:
| 
| class bla
| {
| public:
|   foo() {i=1;}
| private:
|   int i;
| }
| 
| a use of foo would _not_ be inlined because the user hasn't marked it
| inline???

The point you're missing is that only the *keyword* is implicit.  Not
the fact that the function is *actually* declared inline.  In really,
when inline was originally introduced in C++, the above syntax was the
only one available.  See my answer to Alexandre who raised the same
syntactical issue.

There is more than syntax about it.

-- Gaby