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Subject: Mesa Language Working Group minutes
The Language Working Group met on 4 November, 1977. The items considered were inline
procedures and monitors.

Inline Procedures
For inline procedures, syntax is needed in three cases: at the declaration of the procedure in
a program, at the declaration of a procedure in a defs module, in an implementing module
that provides an out-of-line body for a procedure declared in a defs module, and at the
point of call.

All declarations of inline-ness goes on the body of the procedure. The choices of syntax
and their meanings are:

foo: PROCEDURE [