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Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Did `inline' used to do something else? |
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Sun, 19 Nov 2017 03:01:38 +0100 |
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Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> What does "inline" do in other languages?
>> Instead of calling functions, their code
>> gets inserted which sometimes can be
>> a performance advantage?
>
> Which makes me think it used to be some
> alternate form of macro. It doesn't appear to
> do anything now, though.
OK, so just remove it where there is a single
inhabitant, and replace it with plain `progn'
when there are many?
But yes, would be interesting to know. I have
all my Lisp (LISP) books in another realm, but
I'll look it up ("inline") if I get to them
again, or they to me...
Love computer history :)
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- Did `inline' used to do something else?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2017/11/18
- Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?, Joost Kremers, 2017/11/19
- Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?, Joost Kremers, 2017/11/19
- Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?, Emanuel Berg, 2017/11/19
- Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?, Michael Heerdegen, 2017/11/19
- Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?, Emanuel Berg, 2017/11/19
- Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2017/11/19
- Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?, Emanuel Berg, 2017/11/19
- Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2017/11/19
- Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?, Emanuel Berg, 2017/11/19