Thanks Stef for a description of Traits that I now understand!!! (I, 
like many others I imagine, have had no contact with Traits until the 
recent deluge on the list, and was wondering what it all boiled down to ;-)

Daniel

stéphane ducasse wrote:
> traits are not related to spoon. even if I would like to have a small  
> kernel for Squeak on top of which
> we could bootstrap all the rest.
> Traits are simply first class methodDictionaries that we can compose  to 
> build classes.
> 
> Stef