What If module

A

depends on an inline function of module

B

? If both modules are on the classpath as seperate .jars, you'd expect that a change to an inline function in module

B

only affects, well, module

B

. But thats not the case, because the functions are inlined in module

A

. A change to an inline function in module

B

would not have any effect because the old version of the function is still inlined in module

A

Yep! The argument here is exactly what @orangy said, though. The old inlined code has to use public API so someone could have manually written the same thing.