I think there's a misunderstanding here. Traits are completely unrelated to attributes. As for Perl 6 roles, they are the same thing with the exception that in Perl 5 implementations such as Class::Trait, they're assigned at compile time and not runtime.

As such, they are very well defined and far beyond the idea of "concept". As an experimental feature, they only remain such because people are not using them (well, I am and I've been quite happy with them. Your mileage may vary).

So far few seem to appreciate the benefits of traits and those who claim to not see the value also appear to not know what they are. They are not attributes, decorators, or anything like that. Still, there's nothing wrong with not knowing about them. They've only been seriously discussed for a couple of years.

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

In reply to Re^2: Informal Poll: why aren't you using traits? by Ovid
in thread Informal Poll: why aren't you using traits? by Ovid

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