[Pdx-pm] Poll: traits

[Thomas J Keller]

>     [X] I've never heard of traits.

But I know how a solid phase oligonucleotide synthesizer works.

Tom

PS. Have a nice weekend.

On Nov 18, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Ovid wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've posted an informal poll about "traits" in my use.perl journal
> (http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/27644).  It would be nice if some
> folks would be willing to discuss it over there, but for those who
> prefer "on list" discussion:
>
> Question:  why aren't you using traits?
>
>     [ ] I don't understand traits.
>     [X] I've never heard of traits.
>     [ ] I prefer multiple inheritance or mixins.
>     [ ] Single inheritance is good enough for me.
>     [ ] I don't know of a robust/good Perl implementation.
>     [ ] Traits are bad, m'kay.
>     [ ] Other _______________.
>
> Would you be interested in learning more about traits or do you think
> they're just another silly buzzword? If you are interested in traits,
> what would it take to get you to start using them?
>
> One thing I've noticed about traits is that most discussions of traits
> seem to revolve around examples which don't really match up with what
> people need in the real world. This, curiously, is the same problem
> that many beginning OO examples have. As a result, people learn about
> OO and often say "why bother?" I think the same problem affects traits
> despite how useful they are.
>
> Traits are explained in
> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/PhD/schaerli-phd.pdf and in  
> Perl 6
> they are known as "roles".
>
> Cheers,
> Ovid
>
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