Why can't I inherit from int in C++?

Question

I\'d love to be able to do this:

class myInt : public int
{

};

Why can\'t I?

Why would I want to? Stronger typing. For example, I

Answer 1

What others have said is true... int is a primitive in C++ (much like C#). However, you can achieve what you wanted by just building a class around int:

class MyInt
{
private:
   int mInt;

public:
   explicit MyInt(int in) { mInt = in; }
   // Getters/setters etc
};

You can then inherit from that all you jolly want.