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		mtdewcmu on July 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Crow – C++ Microframework for Web, inspired by Pyt... 'static' is old. It must have meant something to Kernighan and Ritchie. I see no connection to the word inline in the C++ meaning. In C, at least, inline means inline. My guess is that the C++ inline got its meaning from the winding path of c++ history, and only makes sense in the context of that history.

geon on July 12, 2014 [–]

I guess it is that in C++, methods implemented in the class declaration are implicitly "inline". It could be done to avoid the problem outlined above.

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