On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:41:52 +0200, J J wrote:
> I agree that traits wont come up normally.  But as soon as you get into  
> big complicated
> heiarchies traits are probably going to be a better fit.  Not only that,  
> I have seen a lot of
> people ask for protocols to be actual queriable objects.  That seems to  
> be about what
> traits are afaik.

... besides that software composition with traits no longer needs to  
follow the hierachical (subclassing) path ...

> Many things smalltalk has are just better versions of what everyone else  
> has.  I think things
> like this are what everyone will be trying to steal tommorow when they  
> finally arrive where
> smalltalk was years ago and see what the problems are.

Refreshing :)

/Klaus