On inlining in C++

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

| > Inline as I have described is close to what has been documented for
| > two decades in official C++ manuals.
| 
| Well if you really believe that C++ programmers read "official C++
| manuals" then you are talking about a different population of programmers
| entirely.

"The C++ Programming Language" -- ranging from the first edition to
the special edition -- by Bjarne Stroustrup is such a document and
given the number of sales[1], I think I have pretty good data.

[1]http://www.research.att.com/~bs/3rd.html

-- Gaby