Traits for modularity
Daniel Vainsencher
danielv at tx.technion.ac.il
Tue May 2 17:21:33 UTC 2006
Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
[Andreas critiques Traits decomposition of behavior as an example of
modularization by Traits]
> I'd say the example you used is a good one. It is fairly complex and
> is part of something which everybody in squeak-dev understands: behavior.
Actually, I think Behavior and friends are hugely complex, very little
understood, were not brought to a local minimum of complexity when
Traitified (not that I blame anyone), and therefore make for a terrible
example on how to do modularization using Traits. AFAIK, the main reason
to Traitify behavior, was that the implementation of Traits itself
otherwise requires duplication. A good reason in itself, but it doesn't
solve the need for a good example.
>> Anyway, if you think that example is badly chosen or if you have
>> another example that shows how traits help modularity (or even if you
>> just have gut feelings ;-) I'd be interested in hearing more about it.
I've read the paper about factoring collections using modularity, and I
thought it added quite a few interfaces that are meaningful and thin,
and at least some of the Traits have names that it makes sense should exist.
Haven't read the code though, and its not a live example, AFAIK. So
Andreas' question stand lively...
Daniel
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