When I brought this up my thoughts were to have the classes flattened to a
linear inheritance model. Yeah this means an ownProp copy from the
constructor for statics and the prototype for instance onto methods. That
might be a limitation but currently class syntax is javascript's nicest way
to describe behavior units.


- Matthew Robb

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Sébastien Cevey <seb.cevey at guardian.co.uk>
wrote:

> I would agree.
>
> How would you use classes as traits -- are you talking about multiple
> inheritance? Or flattened to a linear inheritance model?
>
> On 12 February 2015 at 16:35, Andrea Giammarchi <
> andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Without going down full specification/implementation details, does anyone
>> believe that classes should/could be used, in the future, as traits/mixins
>> too?
>>
>> I find that an anty pattern.
>>
>> I think traits should be just plain objects with an initializer or some
>> special object flagged as trait and I'd rather leave inheritance and
>> classes features outside this future feature.
>>
>> Thoughts? Thanks!
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When I brought this up my thoughts were to have the classes flattened to a
linear inheritance model. Yeah this means an ownProp copy from the
constructor for statics and the prototype for instance onto methods. That
might be a limitation but currently class syntax is javascript's nicest way
to describe behavior units.