From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-05-04T07:53:42+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] traits-0.0.0

On 5/3/05, Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
> > Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> >> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Berger, Daniel wrote:
> > ..
> >>> This doesn't seem to have anything to do with traits:
> >>>
> >>> http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~naseby/33.html
> >>> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Scha02bTraits.pdf
> >>
> >>
> >> depends on your definition:
> >
> > http://thad.notagoth.org/cpptraits_intro/
> >
> > But that shouldn't cause any confusion to ruby folks...
> 
> hmm.  i'll change it back to 'attributes' if people are going to use it but
> don't like the name.  tom complained that
> 
>    class C
>      attribute 'a'
>    end
> 
> was slightly verbose and
> 
>    class C
>      class_attribute 'a'
>    end
> 
> verboser still.
> 
>    class C
>      trait 'a'
>    end
> 
> sure is nice and short ;-)
> 
> however the former is also quite clear.
> 
> opinions welcome - it's a simple matter to swtich it.

I like 'traits', it's a good synonym for attributes, even gets all of
it's letters from it.

For some strange reason, 'towels' also seems like it might work :)
 
btw, very cool stuff!

> cheers.
> 
> -a


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Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)