On 18 August 2011 07:42, Steve Ash <
stevemash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm actually embarrassed sending this, because I feel like this is a feature
> request that is really unrelated conceptually to the goals of AspectJ -- but
> AspectJ is perfectly positioned (from a toolchain perspective) to be able to
> provide it. So I'm shamelessly abandoning my philosophical consistency to
> see if there has been any talk of this type of feature in the AspectJ dev
> community before:
>
> Any talk of being able to somehow use weaving to allow for a "val" keyword
> similar to scala, c#, or (now) Lambok?
>
> I realize that this is not really "weaving" but softening exceptions isn't
> really either -- and AspectJ supports that. Really I'm just having feature
> envy over those other tools and when Lambok demonstrated that they could do
> it just as an annotation processor (+ eclipse integration), then I'm just
> grasping for straws ready to use it. I don't want to mix Lambok and AspectJ
> as I've heard horror stories, and I'm not really anxious to adopt any
> additional toolchain risk.
>
> Any thoughts in the community?
>
> Steve
>