[Pdx-pm] Poll: traits

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Ovid
# on Friday 18 November 2005 12:56 pm:

    [X] Other _I'm still waiting for someone to explain them in less 
than 100+ pages of text_.

Looks like he managed to get it out in 25 at some point (with the help 
of a few others.)

  http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/scgbib.cgi/abstract=yes?Scha03a

What I love about perl's oo is that we really don't need all of the 
formalisms that appear in other languages.  What I hate about it is 
that I don't understand the jargon that appears when people start 
talking about languages with less casual OO constructs.

"A trait is essentially a group of pure methods that serves as a 
building block for classes and is a primitive unit of code reuse."

So, can you spell that in Perl?  It sounds suspiciously like it's 
nothing more than a module that allows you to import some methods into 
your namespace.  Or is that a mixin?

--Eric
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