From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-11-30T00:11:59+09:00
Subject: Re: pre/post ideas

Hi,

In message "pre/post ideas"
    on 03/11/29, "Charles Comstock" <cc1@cec.wustl.edu> writes:

|I wonder if it would be possible if we could define a syntax for multiple
|targets on a wrapping method.  

It would be (and is) covered by AspectR.

|As a related note, what would happen if you unbound a pre,post,wrap method.
|Or the method they hook onto.  It seems some clarification on differences
|between methods/procs will be in order because these AOP methods aren't
|really either.  Are they first class objects as well?  Are they full blown
|methods?  Can you explicitly name a hook and hook it?

Auxiliary methods are _not_ first class objects, but they are (along
with primary method) attributes of a methods object.

|I also was thinking that whichever syntax is worked out for this, assuming
|some : syntax exists for extensions to def it would also be nice to be able
|to overload this, allowing some interesting potential for programmer defined
|syntactic forms.

I don't know.  Flexibility is not always a good thing.  It often leas
language designers into temptation.

							matz.