[Laszlo-dev] Some questions about mixins (LPP-5266)

[Donald Anderson]

1) Do we allow forward references:

   class X with M1 { .... }
   mixin M1 { .... }

I expect yes - this wouldn't be hard since we get the whole source
tree at one time.

2) When compiling an app, do we allow references to traits in included  
libraries/LFC?
I want to say yes, but this would certainly make things tougher.
Right now, the LFC is compiled into a .swc, so there isn't
any readily accessible source information about
the mixins it contains.  I could think of some hacks to accomplish
that, but I'd rather not go there.

3) Is there any real work here that needs to be done for JS/SWF8?
Is it just deprecating keyword 'trait' to prefer 'mixin'?

4) Is this work in devildog only?


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