inlining...

[Ethan]

On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 08:03:04 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> Something always tells me this is the compilers job

If all methods are virtual by default, how can the compiler
inline the code? Properties are a great example where I'd want to
both final and inline them in quite a few cases. In those cases,
the existence of inline would negate the need for final entirely
because being a virtual method would never come in to the
equation.

This would also apply to UFCS functions, which I use to wrap D
types such as strings in to C++ interface vtables without making
the programmer jump through a bunch of hoops.

Inline in Microsoft's compiler is always considered a strong
hint. There are cases where even __forceinline won't actually
inline a function if the compiler decides you're on crack. I
assume this would be the case here, and you'd just be helping
inform the compiler what you want inlined in case it slips up and
gets it wrong.