On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:42:56PM -0500, Ken McIvor wrote: > >= Traits =
> >I think we should make a major committment to traits and use them from > >the ground up. Even without the UI stuff, they add plenty to make > >them worthwhile, especially the validation and notification features. > Code readability is also a concern to me -- the experience of reading > mpl1.py suggests to me that newcomers might find traits a bit too > "voodoo". I'm confident that the same thing could be achieved using > Python properties to validate attributes. Well, I am a stupid noob as far as coding goes (hell, I am an experimentalist, I work with a soldering iron and a mill, not a computer), but I can tell you I find traited code very readable. It is just that the API is very well done. It could have indeed been a nightmare. I think Python properties would be harder to read. Traits simply look like type checking (that's prety much what it is, though), so people get it really quickly. Besides, the manual is very well written. But I am biased, Traits have gotten my out of a difficult moment, not long ago, and I fell in love with them. My 2 cents, Gaël ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
