pragma(inline, true) not very useful in its current state?

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 26-Sep-2015 07:27, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 25 September 2015 at 01:47, David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> [...]
>> our resident Mr. Why-Can't-D-Be-More-Like-C++, Manu Evans
>
> Bah, I'm not sure what this means. If you mean I advocate for things
> that are perfect how they are in C/C++,

> precedented by decades of use
> and millions of developers,

Technically millions could be wrong as easily as a single individual, in 
fact more likely so due to collective bias.

> remaining as people expect them to be...
> then yes.

> C++ didn't get *everything* wrong, otherwise D wouldn't be so much
> like C++ to begin with. __forceinline in C++ is exactly what people
> want here. The behaviour is useful, and well understood; compiler will
> always inline if possible, and warn if it can't. There's nothing wrong
> with C++ in this case, and I wish D would just be the same.
>


Agreed.


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Dmitry Olshansky