Today I learned that it's illegal in C++ to have a class inherit from a union (yes I learned by way of trying to do that) because the standards committee are COWARDS
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"Alex why the fuck are you trying to inherit from a union" look at me. look in my eyes. how much do you really want that question answered
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The short answer is "I'm forcing the &T / &mut T distinction on C++" and the long answer is "by using a const pointer for immutable data but a union of const and non-const pointer for mutable" because I don't want to have two classes, BitSlice and BitSliceMut
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Why not have two classes and add a conversion ctor?
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