nested class inheritance

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:17 PM, deadalnix <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14/07/2012 08:27, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
>>
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org <mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail@**erdani.org<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>
>> >>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     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@**erdani.org<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>
>> >
>>         <mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail at __e**rdani.org <http://erdani.org>
>>
>>         <mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail@**erdani.org<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
>>
>>
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/**show_bug.cgi?id=8389<http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8389>
>>
>> Anyone who thinks this is important, please vote up.
>>
>> --
>> Bye,
>> Gor Gyolchanyan.
>>
>
> This is something to do, but I don't know if it is really that important.
>

It's already fixed and will be in DMD 2.060

-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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