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Re:Crow – C++ Microframework for Web, inspired by Python Flask by mtdewcmu on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @10:59AM (#8004801)
'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.

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Re:Crow – C++ Microframework for Web, inspired by Python Flask by geon on Saturday July 12, 2014 @01:31PM (#8025165)
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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