Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!k.cc.purdue.edu!ahe
From: ahe@k.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Syntax to include procedures inline in procedure-based languages
Message-ID: <1654@k.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 15:26:37 EST
Article-I.D.: k.1654
Posted: Tue Dec  9 15:26:37 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Dec-86 12:24:54 EST
References: <11458@cca.UUCP> <4814@ism780c.UUCP>
Reply-To: ahe@k.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Bill Wolfe)
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Lines: 17

In article <4814@ism780c.UUCP> marty@ism780c.UUCP (Marty Smith) writes:
>In article <11458@cca.UUCP> bills@cca.UUCP (Bill Stackhouse) writes:
>>
>>Something I would like to see in all procedure based languages
>>is some syntax in the procedure def. that indicates that the
>>procedure is to be included inline at all places it is called.
>>That would allow the abstraction to still occur but would do
>>away with the overhead of calling and returning just for a few
>>lines of code.
>
>Good idea.
>			  Marty Smith

 *Bad* idea!! It is up to the *compiler* to judge whether or not to do this...
  
				  Bill Wolfe  (ahe!k.cc.purdue.edu)