On Saturday, 14 February 2026 at 15:50:46 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
Eiffel may be the only language that supports inheriting constructers.
I believe this all goes back to Smalltalk, where constructors are just methods on the single object representing a given class. That class object inherits from the superclass, and inherited constructors are thus not a special case at all. Busy-work plumbing of constructors in D is esthetically displeasing in a mostly elegantly designed language. But I would not call it a big deal. Shrug.
Andy
