[Phpug] Traits in PHP, your opinions

[Kae Verens]

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David Coallier wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Yesterday a proposal has been made on the internals php list
> (http://news.php.net/php.internals/35562) about the having "traits" in
> PHP.
> 
> For those who are unfamiliar with "traits", it's basically a solution
> around multiple inheritance for single inheritance languages as such
> as PHP. It's basically a nice word for "code reuse". It already exists
> in languages as such as Perl, Java, C# and now, proposed for php.
> 
> You can read the proposal here:
> http://www.stefan-marr.de/artikel/rfc-traits-for-php.html and you can
> see many examples to enlighten your questions, and for the most
> adventurous of you, you can even read the thesis at the end (which I
> recommend, quite good).
> 
> Thoughts ?

David, I love it.

Please whip everyone that disagrees.

This little example did it for me:
<?php
class Talker {
  use A { !smallTalk }
  use B { !bigTalk, talk => bigTalk }
}
?>

it kinda reminds me of CSS, actually...

Kae

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