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Subject: Trait aliasing syntax suggestions
From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Gregory Beaver)

Hi,

Here is a slightly clearer syntax for trait instantiation and for
aliasing/removing method names from traits:

<?php
trait foo
{
    function bar(){}
    function bing(){}
}

trait bar
{
    function bar(){}
}

class A
{
    trait foo;
}

class B
{
    trait foo {unset bing, bar as bing};
    trait bar;
}
?>

Simply re-using "trait" instead of "use" is a more self-documenting
solution.  I found it slightly confusing to see "use" when that is a
namespace-specific token currently.  This is also in keeping with the
way functions are defined in interfaces vs. implementation, but in
reverse (for traits, brackets are used for declaration, semi-colon used
for instantiation).

Obviously, using "unset" is more similar to current PHP ideas on how to
remove something, and the "as" syntax is also very PHP-ish, these will
be far more self-documenting than the proposed syntaxes I've read thus far.

Greg