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• traits, please (Score:1)

  by markjugg (792)

  I'd be more interested in the "traits" talk, but I probably qualify as an "advanced" programmer, and I currently don't plan to attend OSCON this year.
• Making traits accessible (Score:2)

  by jdavidb (1361)

  Either talk would interest me, although sadly I'm not going.

  To make the traits talk accessible to me, you would need to give a brief introduction to each of the other methods, and those pros and cons you mentioned. I know what multiple inheritance is, I know why Java doesn't use it and I think interfaces are grand, although in Perl (and what little C++ programming I did) I never had any problems with multiple inheritance. I know zilch about mixins.

  Not sure where anyone else would be in your prospectiv

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  • Re: (Score:2)

    by djberg96 (2603)

    I know zilch about mixins.

    Here's the nitty gritty for Ruby's implementation if you're interested:

    http://www.klankboomklang.com/2007/11/25/modules-part-i-enter-the-include-class/ [klankboomklang.com]
• Traits (Score:1)

  by Smylers (2592)

  I will go if I can, and the traits talk is definitely something I'd like to see.

  While making tests run faster is also of interest, I suspect I could work out for myself how to do it by reading your module's documentation. Whereas traits, being a conceptual thing, benefit from exposition — understanding the fundamental idea, not just learning about some steps to follow.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    Actually, the testing talk is about far more than just Test::Aggregate. I'll be covering a lot of issues regarding databases, different aggregation strategies, refactoring, making tests easier to write (and therefore faster to write) etc.
• Testing, please! (Score:1)

  by colink (481)

  I vote for the testing talk. Your O'Reilly blog was a good intro, but I'm interested in learning more.