[Grace-core] Fwd: [important] Traits

[Michael Homer]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:36 PM, James Noble <kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 12/03/2013, at 16:49 PM, Timothy Jones wrote:
>
>> Sooooo... are traits basically exactly what I suggested with the constructor keyword, except with a different name? (Although you have to use the keyword 'object' if you want to invoke it in normal code, which is a slight difference)
>
> I don't remember that proposal
It is <http://mailhost.cecs.pdx.edu/pipermail/grace-core/2012-November/000914.html>,
and your reply <http://mailhost.cecs.pdx.edu/pipermail/grace-core/2012-November/000921.html>
and a thread between the two of you stemming from those in which you
point out why it's no good.

But somehow it is better now (that we've slapped a word Andrew likes
onto it pro tem).
-Michael