On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:21:12PM -0700, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> ...why are they better served by being an inline function than a macro?

The only thing that comes immediately to mind is that you get compile time
typechecking on the arguments to inline functions, instead of just any
functions the macros happen to call.  But that's not a tremendous gain...

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  Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     tls@rek.tjls.com

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