Re: RFC: Traits for PHP

Marcus, Jochem, Although I agree with the general idea, I feel strongly against possesses, mainly because for a non-native english speaker it's a pita to write and will (and I'm sure of this) *very* often be misspelled (leading to general annoyances while debugging). I can't give any better fitting keywords for it though, but possesses is definitly not the best choice imo. - Tul Marcus Boerger wrote:

Hello Jochem, good arguments. And good ideas. I'd favor 'posesses' then. marcus Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 9:54:09 PM, you wrote:

firstly, I'd like to reiterate the general sentiment that Stefans RFC is blinding! (that's a good thing in this context ;-)

Marcus Boerger schreef:

Hello Lars, we could even go for include here if we wanted to avoid use as much as adding a new keyword. Personally I don't mind using keywords for different stuff as long as it cannot conflict. That is in this case true for both include and use.

how about 'possesses' or 'exhibits' - both these words are closer to the natural language usage of 'trait' with regard to a subject.

John exhibits a **** trait Jack possesses a **** trait

a person coming accross 'use' or 'include' in the context of trait attribution may either make assumptions or become confused as to possible changes/additions to the use and/or include functionality, a new keyword that aptly describes the intention will more likely force users to actually find out what it means.

an another alternative might be 'applies' - which doesn't fit the natural language usage of 'trait' but does succintly describe what is happening.

just a thought.

marcus Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 9:31:29 PM, you wrote:

Hi Stefan, Am Montag, den 18.02.2008, 20:27 +0100 schrieb php@stefan-marr.de: [...]

class ezcReflectionMethod extends ReflectionMethod { use ezcReflectionReturnInfo; /* ... */ }

I'm not sure if the use-keyword is a good idea as namespaces are already "used". If we use "use" for traits, maybe going back to "import" for namespaces would be the way to go. cu, Lars

Best regards, Marcus

Best regards, Marcus