CHAPTER 7
Traits
In this chapter you will learn how to construct reusable parts of a program and deal with the tribulations of multiple inheritance, sidestepping the disadvantages of single inheritance by means of the mixing of compositions made possible by traits.
A trait provides code reusability in Scala by encapsulating method and state and then offering the possibility of mixing them into classes thus allowing code reuse. In this way a class can be mixed in with a myriad of traits unlike inheritance where each class is allowed to inherit from just one superclass. Moreover, other than using the keyword trait a trait definition resembles a ...
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