Why can't we derive struct's?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:15:53AM -0800, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 7:45 PM Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
[...]
> > > Why should it be impossible to derive a struct?
> >
> > Because polymorphism makes little sense for a value type.
> 
> It's not really polymorphism without a vtable, just simple extension.
> `alias this` produces the same result, it's just more wordy, kinda
> ugly, and boilerplate-ey. It also hogs the `alias this` slot.
[...]

Sigh... when is multiple alias this ever going to happen??


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