Re: [Repast-developer] Topology Notes

[Thomas R. H. <th...@sr...>]

I can forward the emails, if you are interested.  By aspects, I mean
aspect oriented programming.  Basically aop is based on the idea that
some common semantics cut across class hierarchies.  For example, in abm
world, many different agents can move, but we wouldn't call movement
necessarily their defining feature.  If we had a movement aspect, it
could cut across the agent hierarchies.  This way we wouldn't have to
inherit movement behaviour.  This, of course, is oversimplifying a bit,
but if you are interested, check out http://aosd.net and
http://www.aspectj.org.  aose is the Aspect-Oriented Software
Development page and aspectJ is a very nice java extension for aspect
oriented programming that uses BCEL.

-Tom


On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:52, ge...@te... wrote:
> Thomas R. Howe writes:
>  > This has been a concern for both Nick and I and is one reason why
>  > we so desparately want to use aspects.
> 
> I couldn't find the reference in the email archives.  What do you
> mean by "aspects"?
-- 
Tom Howe
Social Science Research Computing
University of Chicago