Hi Jochen and Henry
> On 29. feb. 2016, at 11.29, Jochen Theodorou <blackd...@gmx.org> wrote:
>
> On 27.02.2016 19:29, Christophe Henry wrote:
> [...]
>> public class CustomApplication extends Application
>> {
>> private static instance
[…]
>> public ContextgetApplicationContext(){return
>> instance.applicationContext }
>
> Hmmm, I wonder if this can be made sense of or not. A trait can be seen as
> some independent piece that can be added to a class. But for it to be
> independent, it cannot be non-static. In your code the trait implementation
> would depend on an instance of CustomApplication and cannot be created
> without supplying such an instance.
Henry’s example refers to a static field, so it wouldn’t require the outer
instance, analogous to an interface (which is static by definition).
Those semantics should be easy enough to cope with, if only the grammar (and
taste!) would allow it.
-Jesper
