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Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] How to build a real Trait thing without exclusion and renaming
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] How to build a real Trait thing without exclusion and renaming
From: andi@zend.com ("Andi Gutmans")

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stanislav Malyshev [mailto:stas@zend.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:21 PM
> To: Andi Gutmans
> Cc: php@stefan-marr.de; internals Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] How to build a real Trait thing without
> exclusion and renaming
>=20
> > This is just an example of being able to alias a method from a
trait.
> > Assuming two traits would use the same name this would give you the
> > ability to include it under a different name.
> > The point is we can alias but we can not remove.
>=20
> That's what I am asking - why alias? You have perfectly good name for
> each one - A::whatever and B::whatever - which are unique. Why you
need
> any more aliases?

The idea of Traits (whether you agree with it or not) is about a more
flexible way of assembling classes and reusing pieces of functionality.
The paradigm is different from inheritance/interfaces so the
A::whatever/B::whatever is really not relevant in this context unless I
have completely misunderstood you but I don't think I have.

Andi