🚀 go-pugleaf

> ==========Fergus Henderson, 11/8/95==========
> 
> 
> kaelin@bridge.com (Kaelin Colclasure) writes:
> 
> >Dick Menninger <Dick.Menninger@DaytonOH.ATTGIS.COM> writes:
> >
> >    Dick>    A better way to look at this is to see that inline
> >    Dick> behaves like const as they both default to internal scope.
> >    Dick> I suspect this choice comes from applicability to member
> >    Dick> functions.  If you made inline default to external scope,
> >    Dick> you would have difficulty changing that to internal scope
> >    Dick> for member functions.  Attaching static would have a rather
> >    Dick> different semantics.  However, having inline default to
> >    Dick> internal scope allows extern to be applied without a change
> >    Dick> of class-level semantics of the function.
> 
> There has been some confusion of the three distinct concepts of scope
> (visibility), access, and linkage in this thread.  Everywhere that Dick
> Menninger refers to "scope", he should be referring to "linkage".
> 
> 
> The concept of a member function with "extern" scope would be
> meaningless,
> but the concept of a member function having external linkage is quite
> meaningful.  Indeed, all member functions have external linkage, except
> for member functions of local classes defined withing other functions,
> which have no linkage.
> 

I should have done more "homework" and been more
careful on wording before replying.  I was too focused
on getting posts to work instead of what I was saying.

If a class has external linkage, its member names have
external linkage (3.5.5 dominates).  This means that a
static local in an inline member function behaves differently
than the default for a regular inline function (which still
has internal linkage by default).  Further, there is no way
to get the behavior of inline member functions to match
the default behavior for regular inline functions.  This is
no great loss, except in the area of understandability
of the language.  So much for naively plugging ideas
together and thinking you did something valid.

At least I got the inline "is like" const part right.

(as he flakes a little more rust off in a maximally
public way)

Good Day
Dick
Dick.Menninger@DaytonOH.ATTGIS.COM


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