Perhaps if you need traits, you're doing it wrong. Does PHP really need all the added complexity of this? Does it really help solve the problem or did you just add a new maintenance nightmare?
This article has spent an hour or two on the front page with no discussion. I've always wondered what that means; perhaps in this situation, it means that YC's active commenters aren't active PHP developers?<p>Regardless, I think this is a pretty cool idea. It seems like a lot of effort to emulate what's (arguably) a missing language feature, but for those of us who are stuck in PHP for one reason or another, it's an interesting development.