PHP 5.4 Trait Qwerks

Although the title may lead you to think otherwise; I actually really like Traits. I wish I had made the switch to 5.4 sooner! Bundle them with the shorter array syntax and I'm a happy PHP dev. I recently experimented with Traits in a Laravel package. You can find the package here DatController This blog is contains a couple of the not-so-obvious points of traits which I came accross. You can not override trait properties I think this is what I like the least about traits. You can not set a default property and have a class override it. <?php trait NewTrait { public $variable = 'default value'; } class NewClass { use NewTrait; public $variable = 'override value'; } I would love to be able to override trait properties. However, you could argue that it's best to use inheritence for these situations.