[Xotcl] AOP and XOtcl

[Kristoffer Lawson]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Uwe Zdun wrote:

> b) make filters special objects which have a method (proc) on them which is 
> the filter. This would be a substantially different model to what we have 
> now. Filter search would have to take place on these objects, filters would 
> not be inherited, linearization of filters would be different, etc. But, of 
> course, we could combine different filters on these objects. This would be 
> closer to cross-cutting concerns in AOP.

Could you not still keep inheritance in this model? The only difference
really would be that the filters themselves would be reusable
components. If attached to a class, then all class methods, and anything
extending the class, will be affected by the filter. Or is there something
wrong with this idea?

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