Making inheritance less tedious

[Kevin Bealer]

Kristian Kilpi wrote:
> 
> I think class inheritance is a bit(?) tedious sometimes (that is, 
> unnecessarily tedious).
> (I leave interfaces out of this discussion.) 'Problems', IMHO, with it are:
> 
> 1) You cannot inherit constructors.
> 
> 2) A function will hide inherited functions having the same name.

I think 2) is considered a feature and done deliberately to prevent 
certain kinds of errors.  I never thought much about the details though.

As for (1), I agree and this is something that annoys me in C++ too.

Something like this syntax might be in line with D's solution for #2.

class X : Y {
     alias Y.this this;
}

Though I imagine the underlying implementation would be different than 
for a non-constructor method, this syntax looks clear, to me at least.

Kevin