From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:59:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2suyfjg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 864lpr2fi5.fsf@zoho.com
Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:
> 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?
Sure, but I'm a little wary of doing that when I don't really understand
what they were there for in the first place..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-19 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-18 21:14 Did `inline' used to do something else? Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-19 0:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19 0:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-19 2:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19 5:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2017-11-19 9:53 ` Joost Kremers
2017-11-19 10:00 ` Joost Kremers
2017-11-19 15:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19 16:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-19 17:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19 20:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-19 21:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19 22:06 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-19 22:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-20 3:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-20 4:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-20 19:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
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