Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:35660 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 25477 invoked by uid 1010); 20 Feb 2008 20:26:14 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 25460 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2008 20:26:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Feb 2008 20:26:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=jcampbell1@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=jcampbell1@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 72.14.246.245 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: jcampbell1@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 72.14.246.245 ag-out-0708.google.com Received: from [72.14.246.245] ([72.14.246.245:8815] helo=ag-out-0708.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4E/D3-30965-2EC8CB74 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:26:12 -0500 Received: by ag-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id 35so4651424aga.11 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:26:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=KwsXhipjajAjLpyAJLS93iSdSLY11Jk/vjn55EV5IBU=; b=DsUI9mhxXWlqo7oOwhfPXvK/RqrxGnfSxticcHxAq8WMCwut81E5ugQYLFpTyWiO/y063Iwkr74vhTdZPD0G1FBQzBatya3TkB4kgkD1lwOls5v4EvftkVyu2ZmnXpEaGXw0BUkJG5hMB/hBjP4olcVtuHx7MQZAqepzuTqjfBE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JBJg36hk/Ky6bHbROFkoJpVDKmTue60Ajbm6/G0dNOPt/Qhl4d6nHRxNueor8IVHzO9vqxbrrdF6wPdwxf9fGbAMjOuQ7OW+y052hdsiJuw39yYO3CxyVVjceSfUFaxuJEztsJ0VBZQIkJoE0ZxlOoS9M/pWFtJm/+DZxfbE1bo= Received: by 10.142.222.21 with SMTP id u21mr6883246wfg.128.1203539165741; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:26:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.230.14 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:26:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f0676b40802201226j74e100dta71f7d8d90364b4a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:26:05 -0500 To: "internals Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <47BB41F1.40607@iamjochem.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <001c01c87264$3c01b4e0$b4051ea0$@de> <1203453089.24580.12.camel@localhost> <1615703844.20080219214224@marcus-boerger.de> <47BB41F1.40607@iamjochem.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Traits for PHP From: jcampbell1@gmail.com ("John Campbell") On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Jochem Maas wrote: > how about 'possesses' or 'exhibits' - both these words are closer to the > natural language usage of 'trait' with regard to a subject. > > John exhibits a **** trait > Jack possesses a **** trait > > a person coming accross 'use' or 'include' in the context of > trait attribution may either make assumptions or become confused as to > possible changes/additions to the use and/or include functionality, a > new keyword that aptly describes the intention will more likely force > users to actually find out what it means. IMO, the keyword should be a verb because the code is instructing the class to add a behavior. "possesses" and "exhibits" are adjectives which doesn't make much sense. My vote would be something like "acquire". Regards, John Campbell