AspectJ and DRY principle

Posted on April 1, 2007

IMHO this is sooo uncool. All this repetition and parameter jugging is probably there for a reason. But I just can’t see it.

I would have designed the syntax for anonymous pointcuts like this:

before() :
    call (void Account.credit(float))
    && target(account)
    && args(amount)  {
       System.out.println("Crediting" + amount
                          + " to " + account);
}

and for named pointcuts

pointcut creditOperation :
    call (void Account.credit(float))
    && target(account)
    && args(amount)

before() : creditOperation  {
       System.out.println("Crediting" + amount
                          + " to " + account);
}

Since the compiler already has this information, let it figure out the parameters and target objects.

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