inlining

[JAnderson]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:g5p23e$2iue$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> "dsimcha" wrote
>>> If we're going to make the jump and expose these features to the 
>>> programmer, a
>>> noinline attribute to do the opposite might be nice also.
>> Although a noinline directive would be ideal, it is technically possible 
>> to force non-inlining of functions by using D interface files (.di) to 
>> define the functions as prototypes, and only compile the real code in an 
>> object file.  But that's a lot of work compared to just tagging the 
>> function.
>>
>> Forcing inlining, on the other hand, is impossible currently.
>>
>> -Steve
> 
> You could write it as a string mixin. 
> 
> 

What about using a template?  Wouldn't that encourage the compiler to 
inline?

-Joel