On 7/22/13, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 July 2013 23:22, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> On 21-07-2013, at 3:12 PM, Nicolas Cellier
>> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> So, it appears that all these are Traits, and that we currently can't
>>> browse Traits.
>>> See Trait someInstance browse...
>>> (In my image I have a few obsolete Traits by the way)
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>> Are Traits used at all? Are they used meaningfully? I remember they seemed
>> like a pretty cool idea but has any actual, useful usefulness of a useful
>> nature been made of them? Are there tools to do anything sensible with
>> them? Is there current, readable documentation that would help people make
>> good use of them?
>>
>> If not, toss'em.
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> I have started using them. Not meaningfully, or heavily. I would like
> to keep them because they (a) look useful for pulling out commonality
> that doesn't really have enough meat to form a class, (b) really just
> look like they need a bit more tooling support, and (c) they're the
> sort of low level nuts-and-bolts that are really difficult to get in
> in the first place.
>
> So for once I'm in favour of _not_ ripping them out.

+1

> frank
>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Loyalty oaths.Secret searches.No-fly lists.Detention without legal
>> recourse.Remind me - who won the cold war?
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