std::pow implementation

[Steven Bosscher]

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???

Gr.
Steven