On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:08:02AM -0700, Matthew Fulmer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:36:22AM -0600, itsme213 wrote: > > Traits might solve some of this, but I don't think I want to be that much > > on > > the bleeding edge ... > > Traits don't seem to me to be related to the security example > used at the Wikipedia entry on AOP. That is specifically > designed to intercept and provide pluggable processing of > messages. For instance, Pier Unix security is just a decorator > added to each document in the pier document hierarchy that > assigns permissions for actions.
Traits, on the other hand, are for suplementing the class heiarchy with shared behavior. They do nothing about per-object state and behavior, which seems more what you want. -- Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/ Help improve Squeak Documentation: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/808 _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
