On 10 Aug 2004, at 19:37, Jeff Caldwell wrote:
Tonight I will try to get over the "now what?" feeling ... now what do I do with the code above? :)
As I said before, the example in the overview section is somewhat abstract, to say the least. I am working on providing better and more illustrative examples.
However, the essential idea of generic pointcuts is this: Whenever a number of different generic functions share common behavior that can be factored out in before/after/around methods, you can use the generic pointcuts to define all those before/after/around methods in one single place. The pointcut then takes care of applying them to all the specified generic functions. (That's what the call "quantification" in the AOSD community.)
The advantage is that changes to such before/after/around methods can be made in one place instead of many and possibly distributed places.
See my other reply for the bug that caused with-class to fail.
Pascal
-- Tyler: "How's that working out for you?" Jack: "Great." Tyler: "Keep it up, then."