On Wednesday 19 March 2003 01:45, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > Or even to enforce a particular tool, such as UML, which embedd metadata > > in source comments, but present it in GUI? > > Pfff, you won't hear that suggestion from me.
Maybe the sarcasm wasn't strong enough ;o) > > No matter which approach, it is IMHO very "awkward", and raises the bar > > for newcomers to a project by a magnitude or two, as a new completely > > foreign concept has to be assimilated (in parallel with the codebase > > itself) by such individual. KISS ;o) > > I bet the people first proposing object orientation in a world of C > coders had to face the same comments :) Yes, probably, but I doubt Bjarne "invented" C++ constructs (and created a C++ -> C compiler) half way into a project/product. More likely, he saw the light, stepped away and elaborated on the subject with peers, and then wrote a book. > Well, this is because this thread is very much diluted into an 'how to > do AOP in java' which has only very little to do with the title. So, the question is then, is this the right forum for it? Should Avalon "invent" these approaches, with the possibility that "a new brave world" are arriving around the corner? I, for one, like to keep things simple and understandable. I don't favour "essential information" hidden in comments, in a parser friendly format. Kodo is using this, TogetherSoft (UML) is using this, Javadoc sure, now Avalon, later another dozen technologies, and we may have a mess beyond explaination. Niclas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
