Abstract

Most of the existing aspect-oriented technologies are founded on a class-based object-oriented language. A whole other paradigm of objectoriented programming is thus ignored: prototype-based programming. In this paper we explore the impact of the di#erences of prototype-based and class-based programming on the design of crosscut languages and the implementation of weaving. Crosscut languages for prototype-based programs will definitely need to depend more on dynamic properties of the running program. In cases where some of those properties don't change too often, we propose the use of dynamically modifying code.

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