nested class inheritance

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/13/12 3:49 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org <mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>>
> wrote:
>
>     On 7/13/12 3:36 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>
>         The initial question was: why does DMD 2.059 reject this if this
>         makes
>         sense?
>         It's not even a new feature. It's a (possibly) new (and apparently
>         sensible) use case of an existing feature.
>
>
>     I think the simple answer is there was no provision for it. The
>     feature copies the Java feature, and I don't think Java has
>     something like what you defined.
>
>     Andrei
>
>
> Well, the nested classes are pretty much useless without this feature.
> Except for translating Java code. If I had multiple inheritance, I'd
> just make the Apple as base class and have all the seeds virtually
> derive from it. Not having multiple inheritance drove me to try the next
> best think. And after it failed, I complained about it.. And here we
> are. Is it a difficult thing to fix?

I don't know, you may want to submit an enhancement request.

Andrei