From: Peter <Peter.Vanbroekhoven@...>
Date: 2003-11-29T08:44:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Underpinnings of Method Wrapping

> Thoughts?

I was wondering about something... AOP is based on the idea of join
points, which you describe nicely in your RCR. There is also a notion of
pointcuts that select a number of join points - possibly specifying them
using wildcards - for adding an aspect. This notion is not present in your
RCR (which didn't occur to me until I read [ruby-talk:86632]). Why did you
leave it out? With Ruby's large potential for genericity I would expect
the idea of pointcuts to fit better into Ruby than into Java.

Also the idea of cflow disappeared. I remember that when they introduced
it in their tutorial, it sounded weird and unusable, but then they gave a
quite sensible example of its application. Problem is I can't remember the
example (things like these get devoured by the black hole in my mind) and
I can't access my notes until after the weekend. Anyhow, what are your
thoughts on cflow?

Peter