I've seen some questions above about where there is a "traits for dummies" guide and frustration about the 100-page formal introduction to traits.

I think there may be some confusion here, so in the interest of sanity here is Traits: The Formal Model which is the closest thing to "traits for dummies" that I have been able to find. Just 15 pages, and a damn good read.

I believe that the "100 pager" is a companion document written by the same guys, buttressing the arguments they make in the shorter intro. So if you're looking for traits for dummies, I would say start there. My impression is that the perl6 apocalypse stuff about traits assumes you have already been introduced to the material here. (If this has already been posted, sorry.)

As to the poll, I haven't used traits because I am too busy putting out other fires in my job, life and goals, but I think they are cool and would like to someday. And learning about them was productive because it led me to a better understanding of what could commonly go wrong in more vanilla type object inheritance models.

In reply to Re: Informal Poll: why aren't you using traits? (Traits for Dummies) by tphyahoo
in thread Informal Poll: why aren't you using traits? by Ovid

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