Re: Traits expecting interfaces implicitly leads to expensive runtime checks

Hello Martin: On 10 Dec 2010, at 18:15, Martin Wernstahl wrote: > First i have to say that I am not a PHP internals developer, but as a user I > think it would maybe be better to just let the trait use the implements > keyword, and "copy" that to the classes utilizing the trait? > Or does that seem illogical when the trait does not implement all of the > methods specified by the interface? Implements sounds misleading to me. Read: trait Foo implements Bar. Sounds like Foo is providing Bar and not expecting the interface to be there. But require might be a good keyword to be reused. 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