On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 21:28:30 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 7/28/15 5:24 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 15:56:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
It[Accepting Booleans]'s far more flexible in generic code.
It's the other way round. pragma(inline) has currently *three*
behaviors:
pragma(inline);
pragma(inline, true);
pragma(inline, false);
There is no way to represent those as a single boolean.
Ugh. And pragma(inline) doesn't mean what you would think it
means. This is not a very good API for it, it's going to
confuse everyone.
-Steve
I don't think it's terrible confusing, just deceptive.
If pragma(inline) means "attempt to inline just like the -inline
compile time attribute" then it's just an ugly way of repeating
yourself.
In my opinion it shouldn't be any kind of expression. How often
will ever need evaluate an expression for inlining? The hint:
Once in 3 programmer's lifetimes.
It should be something like:
@inline @noinline
Or some other pragma or attribute.
If I want inlining, I want inlining. If the compiler cannot
inline, throw an exception. Otherwise, do as I ask. I'm not here
to joke around with a compiler. I'm here to develop my programs
and have the compiler be on my side, not against me.
