> -----Original Message----- > From: Stanislav Malyshev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:07 PM > To: Andi Gutmans > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; internals Mailing List > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] How to build a real Trait thing without > exclusion and renaming > > Hi! > > > trait MyDebug { > > local $counter = 1; > > IIRC we don't have keyword "local". Why not "private" or "static"?
I wouldn't get too caught up on the naming at this point but rather the functionality. > > class MyClock { > > use MyDebug *; > > use MyTicks { > > timeInTicks = inTicks; > > This looks like code which does assignment. How I am supposed to > understand from it that a new method for MyClock API is born? > > In any case, why you need timeInTicks at all? If you need it public, > why > not write an accessor? It'd be better OO anyway, since MyClock's > clients > can't know about MyTicks's details or even its existence. This is just an example of being able to alias a method from a trait. Assuming two traits would use the same name this would give you the ability to include it under a different name. The point is we can alias but we can not remove. Andi -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php