Re: Traits and Properties

Hi Larry: On 21 Dec 2010, at 03:24, Larry Garfield wrote: > I don't believe the RFC mentions how those resolve in case of collision, > though. If two traits define the same abstract method, does that cause a > collision that needs manual resolution or can the using class just define it > once and thereby support both traits? Abstract methods do not cause collisions, no. So, there can be an arbitrary number of traits asking for an abstract method with identical name, and the only thing that has to happen is that it is implemented eventually, perhaps by another trait. 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