Re: bidirectional dependencies in AOP-like languages?

2017-05-10 Thread Alan Bateman
On 09/05/2017 18:19, Stephan Herrmann wrote: : Let's assume a language using Instrumentation & ClassFileTransformer for weaving an aspect into its base. Lets assume the aspect statically declares a dependence on that base. Now the weaver needs to make the aspect accessible for base-to-aspect

bidirectional dependencies in AOP-like languages?

2017-05-09 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Over in jpms-spec-experts I still see discussion about #CyclicDependences, which made me wonder (admittedly late), what will be the solution for AOP-like languages which inherently need bidirectional dependencies? Is it correct that at runtime cycles pose no problems? Let's assume a language