Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?

[Emanuel Berg]

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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