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

[Eric Abrahamsen]

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..