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

Well, you don’t really need to inherit anything which hasn’t got any virtual member functions. So even if int were a class, there would not be a plus over composition.

So to say, virtual inheritance is the only real reason you’d need inheritance for anyway; everything else is just saving you masses of typing time. And I don’t think an int class/type with virtual members would be the smartest thing to imagine in the C++ world. At least not for you every day int.