[aspectj-users] Removing two language design issues from 1.2 milestones

["Jim Hugunin" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For the 1.2 development stream we considered two potential extensions to the
AspectJ language.  After the discussion on this list I believe that neither
one should be implemented for AspectJ-1.2.

* Support for pertype aspect instantiation model
  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=48082

We didn't receive any good examples of use cases other than logging for this
new feature.  We will consider it again if additional compelling uses are
suggested.


* Support modifiers and attributes in type patterns
  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=44365

This feature is likely to interact strongly with any work we do to support
the new meta-data attributes in Java-1.5.  After the initial discussion on
this list, I judge it best to postpone this design until AspectJ-1.3 where
we can work on a coherent design of for both type modifiers and attributes.

-Jim