On 1 Nov., 16:18, "Rustom Mody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am interested in AOP in python. From here one naturally (or > google-ly) reaches peak. > But peak seems to be discontinued. > Whereas pep-246 on adaptors seems to be rejected in favor of something else. > > What?? > > Can someone please throw some light on whats the current state of the art?
AOP was a research that gone nowhere - at least not in its orginal AspectJ form: declaring aspect code that targets business code, weaving the aspect code into the business app using a code generator. There was much excitement about it around 2001 that faded away since then. What's left from the glory are certain classes of higher order functions - you might call them "decorators". When you want to restore the AOP research program in its full flexibility for your own purposes without using a code generator you can keep a higher order decorator and customize functions following the rationale of this recipe: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/528929 I do think most people prefer a more direct style of composition that is better localized. I actually never used this recipe for any production code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
