Hi Daniel, you wrote:

> ...
> Andreas wrote:
>>> 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.

Old reliable collection hierarchy seems to be the one and only example for  
so many software (re)engineering approaches ;)

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http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=formal+concept+%22smalltalk+collection+hierarchy%22

/Klaus