> Am 11.12.2016 um 09:05 schrieb stepharong <[email protected]>:
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>> 
>> Dale
>> 
>> I missed your remark about traits. 
>> I think that traits are nice because they act as a kind of static macro 
>> expansion and really help to get multiple inheritance into single one. 
>> 
>> Now ideally I would like to have 
>> (I hate so much this google nonUI)
>> 
>> - state with traits with a nice initialization process.
>> - Now Pablo did a nice and simple implementation of Talents (dynamic 
>> traits). I should have a look because if we could unify it and have 
>> either a trait statically applied to a class (what we have now) and a trait 
>> being applicable to an instance then it would be really good. 
> 
> Where is this Talents implementation? 
> I should ask pablo.
> It is better than the one of jorge because it is not based on reflectivity 
> but anonymous class. 
> We will document it. 

Sounds good. I agree the old implementation was too heavy. The anonymous class 
case is surely the next obvious things. I played a bit with that approach. So 
I'm interested to have a real inplementation for that.

Norbert
> 
> Stef
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Norbert
>> 
>> 
>> Now making the tools traits-aware is much more than just having traits in 
>> the language. 
>>     - change
>>     - loading
>>     - editing
>>     - overloading when we compile a method that comes from a trait we should 
>> be able to say that it overrides.....
>> 
>> What we did with the "unification" of traits and classes and the use of 
>> traits inside the kernel is a mistake (in Squeak andreas if I recall made 
>> Trait a subclass of classDescription
>> and this is not good either - even if he marketed it as a good idea) and we 
>> will iterated to remove the use of traits from Class and friends. 
>> Then ideally I would like to iterate over the 
>>      - reflective API (because we should be able to simply access the 
>> "class"  of a compiledMethod from where the traits is coming from or where 
>> it is installed 
>>      - revisite the implementation because the clause composition. 
>> 
>> I think that the tools should not manipulate traits as classes because 
>> traits are not classes. 
>> Then doing this we will clarify that the traits and classes must not be 
>> polymorphic because they are not. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Stef
>> 
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