https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9066

--- Comment #15 from Martin Nowak <code@dawg.eu> ---
This has been requested before by Sean Kelly with a good description. http://forum.dlang.org/thread/f3pisd$4vi$3@digitalmars.com

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--- Comment #16 from Martin Nowak <code@dawg.eu> ---
We should probably write a DIP for it.

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--- Comment #17 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Martin Nowak from comment #13)
> - You can use @disable this(int) in the derived class to selectively
>   disable some of the super class constructors.

Thinking about this now, I think this specific point may be a bad idea since the base class may be in a 3rd part library. If the authors of the base class introduce yet another new constructor you have to be vigilant and check if you need to add any new @disable this(...) declarations in your own subclass.

This is similar to the base class method hijacking problem https://dlang.org/hijack.html ("Base Class Member Function Hijacking"), but it would be a bigger problem for constructors as listed in https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9066#c8

I'll begin working on a DIP.

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--- Comment #18 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> ---
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/42

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--- Comment #19 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Andrej Mitrovic from comment #18)
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/42

And yes I omitted the whole `super(Arguments)` stuff as I believe it would complicate the implementation. C++11 doesn't seem to add support for inheriting specific constructors, and it seems that wasn't a cause for concern.

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Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Priority|P2                          |P4

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