What does 'inline' mean?

[Stanislav Blinov]

On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 21:26:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/9/2020 4:30 AM, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
>> That is no reason for another [instance of the same] compiler 
>> not to have access to symbol table,
>
> Since the linker has this information already, there's no 
> reason to not do the job in the linker.

So, "linkers have to do it because linkers have to do it". Let's 
just stick to outdated tech forever.