True. Personally, as much as I like mixins in Ruby, I doubt they are a good fit for PHP. PHP fundamentally has a static, class based object model. Manipulating the class in run time (or emulating it) violates this concept. It just feels alien to me. Traits on the other hand, seems like a much better fit.
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Come on guys. If this topic is of interest, for goodness’ sake, start a new thread.