Why can't structs be derived from?
dsimcha
dsimcha at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 15 06:28:50 PDT 2011
On 3/15/2011 9:25 AM, Jens wrote:
> It seems rather fundamental to be able to compose a new struct from a
> given struct using inheritance. Why is this not allowed?
>
> struct slist_node
> {
> slist_node* next;
> };
>
> template<class T>
> struct slist_node<T>: public slist_node
> {
> T data;
> };
>
>
Something that has basically that effect is allowed, just not with that
syntax:
struct slist_node(T)
{
slist_node base;
alias base this;
T data;
}
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