There are two cases in perl which sort of correspond to inlining.

One is the folding of constant functions in the compiler's optimization phase. That doesn't give you much direct control, but you can take pains to make perl notice the opportunity. Empty prototypes and constant.pm help there.

The other, mentioned by adrianh, is to invoke the C preprocessor with the -P flag. An example, 

#!/usr/bin/perl -P

#define Foo(a) {\
    local $, = " ";\
    print "defined: ", a, $/;\
}

my ($c, $d, @e, %f) = ('c','d',qw/all in e/);
@f{qw/all in f/} = @e;

Foo($c)
Foo($d)
Foo(@e)
Foo(%f)

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After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: Inlining method/function calls? by Zaxo
in thread Inlining method/function calls? by diotalevi

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