Constructor inheritance? Why not?

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On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 09:20:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> They can if you use type variables. Type variables can be 
> virtual too.

And IIRC you can emulate type variables in D too if you dig into 
RTTI, but I don't quite remember where I found that. I am sure 
you know how to do it. IIRC it was not difficult.

You might want to look into that and polymorphic construction as 
a library feature, it allows for dynamic generics. Not for every 
day use, but allows some advanced modelling.

> but you had "inner" inheritance opposed to Simula/C++ "outer" 
> inheritance.

Actually Simula has "inner" inheritance for the constructor and 
not for the virtual functions, when I think of it, wheras Beta is 
more consistent and have "inner" semantics on both. C++ just 
messed that up in the translation.