[dcl.inline] inline specifier is for ODR #8129
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The key use of the inline specifier since C++11, if not before, has been to allow multiple declarations to satisfy the ODR rather than to provide a hint that compilers routinely ignore. This change moves but does not change wording, in order to move the comment making the connection with the ODR more prominent than the normative wording suggestings core transformation. It might be desirable to demote the normative coding hint to a note, but that goes beyond the remit of a simple editorial chsnge.
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The key use of the inline specifier since C++11, if not before, has been to allow multiple declarations to satisfy the ODR rather than to provide a hint that compilers routinely ignore.
This commit moves but does not change wording, in order to move the comment making the connection with the ODR more prominent than the normative wording suggestings core transformation.
It might be desirable to demote the normative coding hint to a historical footnote, but that goes beyond the remit of a simple editorial change.