From: David Naseby <david.naseby@...>
Date: 2004-02-14T21:01:25+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Traits

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org]
>
> |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?
>
> "module" in Ruby and "trait" are very similar idea.
>

I've just done a writeup of Traits in Ruby on my blog
(http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~naseby/33.html). I think, in summary, that
traits are a solution to a problem that may cause more problems, if
implemented in a language without a good browsing IDE (ie, pretty much
anything except Smalltak). I like the finer grained composition in theory
for its flexibility, and I like the level of library support that a traits
implementation can provide over and above straight Ruby modules. But its
probably not worth the trouble..

David
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~naseby/