Description Eric Bodden 2005-03-21 04:24:12 EST

I would like to see pointcut overloading supported in future versions, because I 
think it's very natural for Java programmers to have this, compared to method 
overloading.

One issue, Gregor raised is the one that people also requested the feature of 
omitting certain parameters in pointcuts, such as:

pointcut foo(Object o1): foo(Object o1, Object o2);

If one *does* want to allow this, this is of course an issue:
What happens in the case

pointcut foo(Object o): foo(Object o, String s);

... where ...

pointcut foo(Object o, String s): call(* Object.equals(..)) && this(o) && 
target(s);

Problem: Should foo(String s) only match calls to Strings, as foo(Object o, 
String s) does, or should it omit the constraint introduced by target(s), since 
s is not bound?

So either one could drop this feature of omission altogether or one could find 
some sensible semantics for this ambiguity. But overloading would be nice anyway 
IMHO.