Re: horizontal reuse: traits vs. grafts

On 25.03.2010, at 14:48, David Soria Parra wrote: > Just as a general idea (which is certainly something after traits are implemented once) > > Scala offers stackable traits so that you can mixin traits during object creation. > An example: > > trait Philosophical { > public function think () { > echo "Cogito ergo sum"; > } > } > > trait Drink { > public function drink () { > echo "gluck gluck" > } > } > > $obj = new Person(); > > $obj->think(); // will fail > > $obj = new Person() with Philosophical; > $obj->think(); // works > > $obj = new Person() with Philsophical, Drink; > $obj->drink(); // works > $obj->think(); // works > > This approach is taken in scala and works pretty fine there for composing classes > during runtime and should be douable in PHP too. For sure aliasing is not > possible in this example. > > But as said just a general idea that I might try to work on once traits are comittet. > > Stefan what do you think about "stackable traits" ? Woha .. that code really scares me. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org