<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 25, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Eagle Offshore <<a href="mailto:eagleoffshore@me.com" class="">eagleoffshore@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 25, 2017, at 1:35 PM, Joe Groff <<a href="mailto:jgroff@apple.com" class="">jgroff@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">What do you mean exactly by traits? That's an overloaded term.</span></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Scha03aTraits.pdf" class="">http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Scha03aTraits.pdf</a><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Like PHP or Pharo traits. Like a protocol that has a default implementation that comes along with it.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>OK. Swift already has protocol extensions, which let you provide default implementations alongside protocols.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Joe</div><br class=""></body></html>