[swift-users] It seems like we really need an #include preprocessor directive?

[Jens Alfke]

> On Mar 11, 2017, at 10:21 PM, David Sweeris <davesweeris at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> (I see absolutely nothing wrong with inheritance, and it solves exactly this sort of problem. Yes, structs can’t inherit, but they can contain a common struct as a member, which is quite similar and addresses this issue.)
> 
> That forces you into reference semantics, though.

No it doesn’t. A struct member of a struct is still a value. If you put a common class instance in a struct, that would be reference semantics.

—Jens
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