Analogs in Other Languages
In the Ada programming language, there exists a pragma for inline functions. Most other languages, including Java and functional languages, do not provide language constructs for inline functions, but often do perform aggressive inline expansion.
Functions in Common Lisp may be defined as inline as such:
(declaim (inline dispatch)) (defun dispatch (x) (funcall (get (car x) 'dispatch) x))Read more about this topic: Inline Function
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