From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-10-21T23:07:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Cut-based AOP

Sorry for the delay steve. Mnay questions...

stevetuckner wrote:

> Please expand on that last sentence please. Could this cut feature be
> used to implement selector namespaces?

I cannot say for certain if it would be complete solution, but if cuts
could be "activated" and "deactived" on the fly it would be essentially
namespace selectors.

Simple Examples:

  class A
    def x; 1 ; end
  end

  cut Ac < A
    def x ; 2 ; end
  end

  a = A.new

  a.x #=> 2

  Ac.mute      # good interface for this?

  a.x #=> 1

  Ac.unmute

  a.x #=> 2

That's the basic functionality of a namespace selector. So we should be
able to build on this to create namespace interface.

T.