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Subject: Re: Optimizing Floating-Point Expression Evaluation
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Date: Thu, 7-May-87 02:15:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  7 02:15:07 1987
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> A better solution, which I saw in a magazine once upon a time, is a for
> mechanism using "inline" functions. ... I haven't followed the X3J11
> committee very closely, so I don't know if this was even considered.

I doubt it was.  This feature is present in C++, which is probably
what the article was referring to (or, at least, alluding to).  I
suspect that if it came up at all, it was considered a Nice Idea, but
not mature enough for standardization.