On inlining in C++

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

| > 
| > You should refrain from making such hash assertions about C++
| > programmers.  "inline" like any other C++ features is documented and
| > here is not the right place to transmute a meaning of an ISO
| > standardized language.
| 
| They are not hash (rash?) assertions, they are simply obsrevations. I have
| dealt with a LOT of C++ code written by a lot of people.
| 
| If you refer to the ISO standardized language, you are on thin ground, since
| it has little to say that is meaningful in this area. 

I'm referring to both ISO standardized and documentation of the
feature, practice since its introduction in C++ (1981).  

-- Gaby