From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-22T01:49:39+09:00
Subject: Re: traits

> -----Original Message-----
> From: itsme213 [mailto:itsme213@hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:34 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: traits
> 
> 
> Does Ara's traits package offer similar capabilities to 
> http://code.enthought.com/traits/ ? Any (past, present, or 
> likely future) 
> relation?

It looks to me like some sort of strange mix of delegation, observer,
module and the Schaerli concept of traits, with a GUI to boot.  I don't
think there's any relation to Ara's traits package.

Traits (the Schaerli concept) are largely a solution in search of a
problem in world of dynamic languages, IMHO, especially in Ruby since we
have modules and mixins.  To nip the potential
method-redefinition-from-multiple-modules problem in the bud I
collaborated with Mauricio Fernandez and wrote the 'use' package that
let's you selectively include, exclude or alias module methods at the
moment of inclusion.

Regards,

Dan