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Datalog as a pointcut language in aspect-oriented programming

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Mathieu VerbaereAuthors Info & Claims

OOPSLA '06: Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

Pages 667 - 668

https://doi.org/10.1145/1176617.1176664

Published: 22 October 2006 Publication History

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AspectJ's pointcut language is complex, yet often not expressive enough to directly capture a desired property. Prolog has been suggested as an alternative, but Prolog queries may not terminate, and they tend to be verbose. We solve expressiveness, termination and verbosity by using Datalog plus rewrite rules.

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Datalog as a pointcut language in aspect-oriented programming
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features

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OOPSLA '06: Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

October 2006

530 pages

ISBN:159593491X

DOI:10.1145/1176617

General Chair:
Peri Tarr
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
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William R. Cook
University of Texas at Austin, USA

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Published: 22 October 2006

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