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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: are inlines static?
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Date: Sat, 5-Apr-86 13:14:54 EST
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> alice!ark claims that "inline" routines are not implicitly
> static, unless declared otherwise.  He/she may be right, in
> the case of the existing compiler, but Rich Wales is right "by the
> book".
>
> Read section r8.1 more closely: *everything* at the
> top level is static unless declared otherwise.  Doesn't the
> existing compiler follow this?

Sorry.  I forgot the differences in scoping rules.  Maybe Bjarne will
clarify the situation.