On 11/1/07, Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AOP was a research that gone nowhere - at least not in its orginal AspectJ > form: > declaring aspect code that targets business code, weaving the aspect code > into the > business app using a code generator. There was much excitement about it > around 2001 > that faded away
Maybe so but five years maybe too short to decide this. Consider that the core ideas of LISP -- interpretation, garbage-collection, s-exps-as-universal data-structure (now XML) have taken 50 years to get into the mainstream. Of course its also true that the number of dead-end ideas exceeds the successes. My own guess is that AOP via higher order functions and metaclasses will be more successful than via aspectj and code-generation. In short python will do better than java. And so.. thanks for the link http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/528929 On 11/1/07, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3119 Thanks Michele. But there are a couple of questions on this: a. Does one have to use python 3000 for this? b. Are there more example-oriented writings on this (such as the papers you and mertz wrote on this stuff within the older paradigm c. Where does peak stand today? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list