RE: [aspectj-dev] old dominates form not permitted

[Jim.Hugunin@xxxxxxxx]

Wes Isberg wrote:
> The 1.1 compiler signals an error when using the old form of dominates,
> so I plan to change some text in porting.html from
> 
>    The compiler will report a warning that the form aspect {name}
> dominates {list}...
>    is deprecated.
> 
> to
> 
>    The compiler will report an error that the form aspect {name} dominates
> {list}...
>    is no longer supported.

This is a good change to porting.html.  It turned out that supporting both the new and old forms of dominates simultaneously was hard to implement and I opted instead to put time into producing a clear error message to help people move to the 1.1 language.

-Jim