Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!ames!uhccux!lupton From: lupton@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Robert Lupton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Inlining -- what happened to the inline keyword Keywords: ansi inline Message-ID: <4783@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 8 Sep 89 20:08:42 GMT Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 9 In the distant past (1984?) I thought, from reading this newsgroup, that the keyword `inline' was being proposed for ANSI C, to declare that a function should be expanded inline. When I got back on the net in 1987 or so it had dissapeared, and I've been wondering ever since why it was killed. Ditto with comments to end of line // this is a comment Both have prior art (in C++), so that can't have been the reason. Can anyone (I hope not many more than one) enlighten me? Robert