From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b2bad1e85ca20475 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5b3c19b1631bb558 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Friedrich Dominicus Subject: Re: The best thing/greatest feature summary Date: 2000/11/24 Message-ID: <87vgtdfkkv.fsf@frown.here>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 697430906 References: <39DCB9E3.EAE8F426@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <39F9FCCE.D6719C6F@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <3A1DCF24.CF7A3908@deakin.edu.au> X-Sender: 320004655587-0001@t-dialin.net Followup-To: comp.lang.eiffel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Trace: news.t-online.com 975080699 01 21513 KXUFJQVSgHVDC 001124 15:44:59 Organization: Q Software Solutions GmbH User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) XEmacs/21.1 (Canyonlands) Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: frido@q-software-solutions.com.NO-spam Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Lothar Scholz writes: > > But you can't add this to a feature dynamically and you must change > the inheritance hierarchie. do not forger :around methods too ;-) >This is definitely not the purpose of the > before/after methods. No, but the possiblities are breath taking. > Have a look at what is now known as aspect > oriented programming and you will find that eiffel and most other > languages (expect Java and Lisp) really sucks in this area. If I got the choice I take Lisp;-) > > Perhaps someone will implement an eiffel aspect weaver as a Ph.D. > thesis. But eiffel is so less used that i don't really expect anything > - it looks that everybody is on the java side. which is obviously not a real choice, isn't it? Regards Friedrich -- for e-mail reply remove all after .com