Traits/Mechanic API v2

[rniraclefire]

Some mechanics (BoxSpawner, Zipline, etc) require binding activation to a child, which is impossible to configure right now. We might want to implement Traits from the old rewrite repository for this:

std.implementBindActivation(BoxSpawner, function(...)

end))

std.implementOnActivate(BoxSpawner, function(...)

end))

-- libs/Level:

BindActivation:call(BoxSpawner, ...)

Waiting to see if luau-lang/rfcs#191 will implement inheritance which would probably be used for Mechanics onwards

[rniraclefire]

Tentative class based design:

class BoxSpawner: Mechanic -- psuedo for inheriting a baseclass
    function onInit(self, level)
    end

    function onStart(self, spawner, level)
    end

    function onActivate(self, spawner, level, event)
    end

    function bindActivation(self, spawner, level)
    end
end

[rniraclefire]

Should also consider renaming onStart -> onMechanize as that's more accurate

[Rob07erto]

I feel like for Inheritance if Luau adops Inheritance it should adopt a structural only inheritance. (having one table being cloned to another) and not have any state delegation shit. I believe that along side if multiple inheritance becomes allowed an adhoc polymorphism approach like seen in rust would avoid alot of issues.