Denys Duchier wrote:
> Isn't the claim to fame of AOP that it permits a _modular_ yet
> cross-cutting way of addressing aspects? We don't particulary address
> this issue of modularity.
Yes, that's what the AOP people are trying to do. Not easy, especially
if you approach it only in a syntactic fashion.
> There are many applications of AOP about
> which we have nothing to offer. What we have is probably a better
> foundation for e.g. adding fault-tolerance to distributed
> applications. I don't think we solved AOP.
I never claimed we did.
> We just have better
> solutions to offer for certain problems that AOP attempts to solve.
Yes, exactly. And we should not hide this.
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