Re: Urgent patch for traits in PHP 5.4

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > (Several cc's removed) > > > Stefan Marr wrote: > >> Sorry, but I am a bit annoyed that 'the community' does not care enough >> about reviewing such engine changes. >> > I feel that it is worth pointing out that there still needs to be a case > made for the general use of traits. Currently I see no advantage to using > them so it is not an area I have even looked at. If developments like this > slow down the general performance of PHP, then they need to be able to be > disabled as well, and at present my own existing code does seem to be > running slower on PHP5.4 over 5.3 (and also 5.2). The majority of us ARE > simple testing that existing code works and working out how to fix stuff > that gets broken, so spending time on 'new features' tends to be a lot > lower down the todo list for many of us? > > With regards to 'traits' ... why would I not put this code into a base > class and simply extend from that. To my mind this is a little like 'goto', > a bodge because designing the class structure is too difficult? could you please open a separate thread for that? I think it would be a bad idea hijacking this thread to discuss the usage of traits. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu