Nature of traits

2003-12-21 Thread Jonathan Lang
I've just been rereading the recent discussions, and I noticed something that I missed the first time: Larry Wall wrote: Traits are not definitional but rather operationally defined in the worst way. That's why traits are renegade roles. They don't play by the rules. In other words, a

Re: Nature of traits

2003-12-21 Thread Luke Palmer
Jonathan Lang writes: I've just been rereading the recent discussions, and I noticed something that I missed the first time: Larry Wall wrote: Traits are not definitional but rather operationally defined in the worst way. That's why traits are renegade roles. They don't play by the