Class-Inheritancing Error

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 11:08:33AM +0000, David T. Oxygen via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> I wrote a piece of code like this:
> 
> ```d
> class Person{
> 	string name;
> 	this(string name){this.name=name;}
> }
> class Someone:Person{
> 	alias super this;
> }
> void main(){
> 	Someone x=new Someone("Bob");
> }
> ```
> And then,I got a Error-Message:
> ```
> ab.d(6): Error: variable name expected after type `super`, not `this`
>     alias super this;
>                 ^
> ab.d(6):        `this` is a keyword, perhaps append `_` to make it an
> identifier
> 
> ```
> Who knows why I can't use `alias this` there? Please tell me,thanks
> very much. I'm waiting for you.

Can you explain more why do you want to alias super to this?  A derived
class already inherits its base class's members, there's no need to
explicitly alias it.


T

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