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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 06:50:29 -0400
From: Shawn Lee <sdlee AT pop DOT atlanta DOT com>
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Subject: Re: typedef struct inheritance -- not possible?
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Kenneth Foo wrote:
> 
> Why can't this work under DJGPP?
> It did work under Visual C++ and Turbo C++...
> 
> 
> Is this valid under ANSI C (c++?) ?
> What I'm trying to do is to derive a class called DERIVED from BASE.
> Hopefully, this avoids those silly constructors during creation.
> 
Inheritance isn't an ANSI C capability.  It is perfectly valid in C++
and you don't need the "typedef".