Re: horizontal reuse: traits vs. grafts

On 26 Mar 2010, at 10:26, mathieu.suen wrote: > Variable has been discuss in *http://tinyurl.com/y9t7nd9 Right, and related to that we have freezable traits http://scg.unibe.ch/scgbib?_k=NNRwidu5&query=freezable+traits&display=abstract Which influenced this RFC for PHP: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/nonbreakabletraits And there are traits based on lexical nesting, which does not seem to be applicable to PHP at all: http://scg.unibe.ch/scgbib?_k=J-wbMltV&query=tom+cutsem+bergel However, it still comes with a relatively high complexity, and a lot new concepts... The last time we had a lengthy discussion on this, and the conclusion was, people are afraid of this additional complexity. That was my reason to design grafts. Best regards Stefan -- Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 2974 Fax: +32 2 629 3525