Adding properties/members to base types?

[Daniel Keep]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> "Kirk McDonald" wrote
>> This currently works only for the array types. It was proposed to 
>> generalize it for all types.
> 
> Kirk,
> 
> Thanks, that is where I read it.  For some reason I couldn't find it.  I 
> hope it does get added, but only for basic types/enums, because allowing it 
> for classes/structs would confuse the hell out of me :)  Not only would you 
> have to look through class definitions/base classes, but also randomly 
> placed functions to find out what the definition of some class property is.
> 
> -Steve 

Heaven knows we don't have the exact same problem with free functions,
since you can always tell where they're coming from.  And hell, you
*always* have the ability to modify a class or struct's definition, so
there's no reason to ever create a free function!

	-- Daniel


P.S.  For those that don't know me very well: :P