On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: >>"he last time something serious was new in Smalltalk it was back in 1984" >>"got killed by Java" >>"Pharo is not about maintaining the past." > > Sorry Stef, but to me these are phrases and not releated to > the question about the usefullness of Traits.
These phrases are related to innovation in our language. > Adding more language features to be comparable to other languages? It's not about making Smalltalk to be comparable to other languages, it's about trying new ideas. I think Smalltalk is a good platform for that and traits are such an idea. Now, maybe traits implementation is not perfect. Maybe developer support is not good. I think developer support will follow the arrival of Nautilus and Glamour which makes it much simpler to try new ideas. Do we want to keep traits in the system? Maybe not. Do we want to delete them and forget them forever? I certainly don't want that because I see real potential in traits. So, either we keep them in the system or we make it possible to load them. I'm not sure solution #2 is doable and nobody showed interest yet. -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." James Iry
