Re: Why can't structs be derived from?

[dsimcha]

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;
}