From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Did `inline' used to do something else? Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:05:36 +0100 Message-ID: <868tf32kvj.fsf@zoho.com> References: <878tf3z3ub.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511049983 25001 195.159.176.226 (19 Nov 2017 00:06:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:06:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 19 01:06:18 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGD7p-0006AN-Kc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:06:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51466 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGD7w-0006cn-S1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:06:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGD7T-0006bJ-6R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:05:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGD7Q-0002wz-20 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:05:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36082 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGD7P-0002wY-RB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:05:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGD7A-0003ne-9U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:05:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:K9QUBml1wxKCx59X/bHOHHkF82g= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114962 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > The function `inline' is an alias for > `progn'. > > Gnus is full of code where inline is called > with a single argument, ie a no-op, which > makes me think `inline' used to do something > else? I've tried searching git logs, with no > results -- did this function used to actually > inline code? What does "inline" do in other languages? Instead of calling functions, their code gets inserted which sometimes can be a performance advantage? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573