Mixin or Trait implementation in AS3?

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Published on 2010-04-05T08:50:50Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 8:53 UTC
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I'm looking for ideas on how to implement a Mixin/Trait style system in AS3.

I want to be able to compose a number of classes together into a single object. Of course this is not a language level feature of AS3, but I'm hoping that there is maybe some way to do this using prototype based techniques or maybe some bytecode hacking that I believe AsMock uses to implement it's functionality.

An existing Java example is Qi4J where the user define interfaces that the Qi4j framework implements based on metadata tags and coding by convention.

Has anyone any ideas on how to get the Mixin/Trait concept working within AS3?

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