From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-05-29T18:28:43+09:00
Subject: Re: metaclass in python, role in perl and AOP in ruby

gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove-yahoo.it> writes:

> Lionel Thiry ha scritto:
>> Hello!
>> I had some kind of vision the other day:
>> * Python
>> It has metaclasses programming since version 2.3.
>> * Perl6
>> It will focus on roles.
>> * Ruby2
>> If ruby2 focus too much on metaclasses, it would mimic python2.3. If
>> ruby2 focus on roles, it would mimic perl6. If ruby2 focus on AOP, ruby
>> wouldn't mimic anything.
>> 
>
> it would mimic AspectJ. Or, if we just install the supposed :pre :post
> :wrap hooks it would mimic Common Lisp, I think.

Everything mimics Common Lisp, but most things do it worse. :-)

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