[comp.lang.c++] Inline style question, "recursive" inlines

roger@procase.UUCP (Roger H. Scott) (04/12/90)

The inability of AT&T's cfront to deal with "forward references" to inline
functions is purely an artifact of its simplistic one-pass design.  Nothing
in the *language* interferes with handling such inlines "correctly".  Handling
of inlines, in general, in cfront is a mess and AT&T knows it.  Given that
cfront is an implementation of the C++ language that is teetering on the brink
of collapsing under its own weight, I don't see why this news group spends
so much time worrying about what cfront does and doesn't do.  Perhaps part of
the reason is that AT&T needs to make more of an effort to distinguish
C++ language issues from cfront implementation issues.