From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-02-14T15:59:57+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Traits

In article <6e613a32.0402130813.407a4e35@posting.google.com>,
Daniel Berger <djberg96@hotmail.com> wrote:
>All,
>
>I came across this article recently:
>http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~black/publications/TR_CSE_02-012.pdf
>
>Since I haven't seen a full discussion on the topic, I thought I would
>see what Ruby programmers think of "traits" as an OO concept.  Cool
>idea?  Or a solution in need of a problem?
>

OGI is in my neighborhood. :)

I found this interesting quote on the first page:

"Despite the passage of nearly twenty years, neither multiple inheritance 
nor mixins have acheived wide acceptance"

Well, I can see why multiple inheritance has fallen out of favor, but I 
use mixins all the time.

Phil