From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Did `inline' used to do something else? Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 16:38:21 -0800 Message-ID: <874lpryuf6.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <878tf3z3ub.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <868tf32kvj.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511052055 27764 195.159.176.226 (19 Nov 2017 00:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:40:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (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 01:40:51 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 1eGDfD-0006qC-Tg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:40:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51517 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGDfL-0002j3-CM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:40:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGDeu-0002iy-AG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:40:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGDer-0001pB-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:40:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38236 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGDeq-0001ow-Rp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:40:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGDeZ-0004RO-RI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:40:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:EfuG0hMEov7g1prClWbxl7WdOmg= 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:114963 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > 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? Which makes me think it used to be some alternate form of macro. It doesn't appear to do anything now, though.