From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2004-02-15T01:24:56+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Traits

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote in message news:<1076736977.263683.27564.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>...
> Hi,
> 
> In message "OT: Traits"
>     on 04/02/14, Daniel Berger <djberg96@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> |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.
> 
> 							matz.

Yes, I thought so, too.  Their argument against mixins boiled down to
"What if you have identical methods in two different modules that you
wish to 'include'?".  But, so far that just hasn't happened in my
personal experience.

Dan