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Why a struct can not be a base class of another struct or vise versa?
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I am more interested in an answer from the .Net and CLR point of view:
Why a struct can not be a base class of another struct or vise versa?
Structs occupy fixed-size slots in the stack (or wherever they’re living).
Therefore, you wouldn’t be able to do any kind of polymorphism with structs, since the derived struct would be a different size.
It would be possible to inherit members from other structs, but since you wouldn’t be able to do any kind of polymprphism, it wouldn’t be worth the confusion.