[aosd-discuss] Inheritance hierarchies

[Raffi Khatchadourian]

Ashley,

On Tue 17.Apr'07 at  7:58:47 +0100, Ashley at Metamaxim wrote:
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>I think that the fundamental issue is that aspects are compositional. The inheritance paradigm suits refinement and the mixin paradigm suits composition.

But how are aspects compositional? The problem with reasoning about AO
programs is that doing so generally requires whole-program analysis. 

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Raffi Khatchadourian
Graduate TA Lecturer/Researcher
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Ohio State University
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~khatchad