How to mix-in a trait to instance?

Question

Given a trait MyTrait:

trait MyTrait {
  def doSomething = println(\"boo\")
}

it can be mixed into a class with extends<

Answer 1

An existing runtime object in the JVM has a certain size on the heap. Adding a trait to it would mean altering its size on the heap, and changing its signature.

So the only way to go would be to do some kind of transformation at compile time.

Mixin composition in Scala occurs at compile time. What compiler could potentially do is create a wrapper B around an existing object A with the same type that simply forwards all calls to the existing object A, and then mix in a trait T to B. This, however, is not implemented. It is questionable when this would be possible, since the object A could be an instance of a final class, which cannot be extended.

In summary, mixin composition is not possible on existing object instances.

UPDATED:

Related to the smart solution proposed by Googol Shan, and generalizing it to work with any trait, this is as far as I got. The idea is to extract the common mixin functionality in the DynamicMixinCompanion trait. The client should then create a companion object extending DynamicMixinCompanion for each trait he wants to have the dynamic mixin functionality for. This companion object requires defining the anonymous trait object gets created (::).

trait DynamicMixinCompanion[TT] {                                                                    
  implicit def baseObject[OT](o: Mixin[OT]): OT = o.obj                                              

  def ::[OT](o: OT): Mixin[OT] with TT                                                               
  class Mixin[OT] protected[DynamicMixinCompanion](val obj: OT)                                      
}                                                                                                    

trait OtherTrait {                                                                                   
  def traitOperation = println("any trait")                                                          
}                                                                                                    

object OtherTrait extends DynamicMixinCompanion[OtherTrait] {                                        
  def ::[T](o: T) = new Mixin(o) with OtherTrait                                                     
}                                                                                                    

object Main {                                                                                        
  def main(args: Array[String]) {                                                                    
    val a = "some string"                                                                            
    val m = a :: OtherTrait                                                                          
    m.traitOperation                                                                                 
    println(m.length)                                                                                
  }                                                                                                  
}