definition of "implicit" inline?

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Thu Jul 31 14:00:00 GMT 2003


Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:

| | > There is no consensus, either, that the current logic is good.  
| | > I'm not shouting louder.  I'm just trying to get people to consider
| | > the *language* _under discussion_ and to prevent them from transmuting
| | > the intent of the keyword.  
| | 
| | But your quotes from the standard make it clear that no one is transmuting
| | anything here.
| 
| Yes, the is transmuting.  That of saying that there is an implicit
| inline and one that is explicit.

[ sorry I didn't finished my sentence ]

The transmuting is in trying to introduce a notion of implicit/explicit
inline and in saying that inline is for optimization and the compiler
knows better than the programmer.  Inline is meant to be "substitute
the function body".

-- Gaby



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