Aspect Programming Module

[Joe Mason]

In article <donn-2EE58A.17041214042004 at nntp1.u.washington.edu>, Donn Cave wrote:
> Have you been through the materials referred to there?
> [http://www.logilab.org/projects/aspects/] I didn't spend much time on
> it, but I didn't immediately recognize anything from the last time I
> heard about AOP, so I was led to wonder if it's a different notion
> going by the same name.

No - I don't have any particular need or interest in AOP at the moment,
so I haven't really looked at it.

> The one I remember allows objects to inherit from containers,
> more or less.  Your widget for example might inherit some
> drawing parameters from the window it belongs to.  I'm probably
> getting it mostly wrong, but then I wasn't very excited about
> the idea.  OOP is scary enough without compounding it this way.

The only example I've read was an intro using AspectJ
(http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-aspectj/) which logs
every function call.  That doesn't seem too scary.

Joe