>From: tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: avi at smallthought.com, The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: Traits in use (was Re: Re: Squeak and Namespaces)
>Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:16:28 -0800
>
>
>On 1-Dec-06, at 11:05 AM, Avi Bryant wrote:
>
>>On 12/1/06, J J <azreal1977 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Yes, the inheritance model without them has some real problems.   And 
>>>finding
>>>a solution is tough.  C++'s multiple inheritance?  Too  complicated.  
>>>Java's
>>>interfaces?  Too much work and code duplication.  So now smalltalk  has a
>>>solution, and IMO the best one.
>>
>>Is that opinion based on real-world use of Traits?  Now that they've
>>been in the base image for a decent length of time, I'm curious to
>>hear of any war stories from using Traits outside of a research
>>context.  I've never used them in anger myself, so it would be very
>>interesting to hear from those who have.
>
>I've not tried to use them but I did trip over them when working on  
>cleaning up the compiled method source pointer mess (which I still  haven't 
>finished, rats). The problem is that the tool support appears  to be 
>missing, which is a real pain. For example, I edit a trait- method in one 
>place that it is incorporated (imported? linked?  whatever) and there is 
>nothing that tells me it is a trait, or asks  me if I want to make my 
>change a local version or a global one or  anything at all. No matter how 
>good an idea is, without proper  integration it ends up causing problems.
>
>
>tim
>--
>tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>Useful random insult:- Pedaling real fast, but not getting anywhere.

I was under the impression that there was a "trait's aware" browser in the 
image, or at least loadable from squeak map or something.  Am I wrong?

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