From: Ben Giddings <ben@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T03:11:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Aspect oriented Everything?

Volkmann, Mark wrote:
> However, let's talk about the use of AOP in Ruby.  Suppose you implement 
> an aspect as a mixin and then mix that into many classes.  Another 
> application may want to reuse those classes but they may want a 
> different implementation of the mixin.  That will require overridding 
> the mixin methods which seems cumbersome.

Ok, and what is the AOP alternative?

Like I said, I don't know much about it, other than the brief glance 
I've had at it.  I'd like to see a fairly simple, but concrete example 
of "here is a problem that needs solving, here's how you'd solve it 
without AOP, here's how you'd solve it with AOP."

My guess is that there are other people on the list who are similarly 
interested, but if not, feel free to speak up and we could do this offline.

Ben