[ZODB-Dev] Persistent-derived class instances always callable

Shane Hathaway shane at zope.com
Tue Oct 21 10:00:23 EDT 2003


On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> AOP is in as fragmented a state as OOP was back in the days when new 
> experimental OO languages were springing up every month or so, and people 
> are still putting forth ideas about what AOP *is*.  So, it's virtually 
> impossible to say anything really specific about AOP right now.

Ok.

> (Btw, aspects aren't *that* new.  I remember reading papers on it back in 
> 1997, and research may go back even further.)

That sounds very new to me. :-)

> So, if you want to make *really* transparent proxies for any possible 
> object type, you really need to be dynamically generating them already anyway.

That means it's going to become progressively more expensive to create a 
proxy.  Oh, well.

Shane



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