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Taming aspects with monads and membranes

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Ismael Figueroa,

Nicolas Tabareau,

Éric TanterAuthors Info & Claims

FOAL '13: Proceedings of the 12th workshop on Foundations of aspect-oriented languages

Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/2451598.2451600

Published: 26 March 2013 Publication History

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When a software system is developed using several aspects, special care must be taken to ensure that the resulting behavior is correct. This is known as the aspect interference problem, and existing approaches essentially aim to detect whether a system exhibits problematic interferences of aspects.

In this paper we describe how to control aspect interference by construction by relying on the type system. More precisely, we combine a monadic embedding of the pointcut/advice model in Haskell with the notion of membranes for aspect-oriented programming. Aspects must explicitly declare the side effectsa nd the context they can act upon. Allowed patterns of control flow interference are declared at the membrane level and statically enforced. Finally, computational interference between aspects is controlled by the membrane topology. To combine independent and reusable aspects and monadic components into a program specification we use monad views, a recent technique for conveniently handling the monadic stack.

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Tanter ÉFigueroa ITabareau N(2014)Execution levels for aspect-oriented programmingScience of Computer Programming10.5555/2748144.274839480:PB(311-342)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2748144.2748394
Figueroa ITabareau NTanter É(2014)Effective Aspects: A Typed Monadic Embedding of Pointcuts and AdviceTransactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development XI10.1007/978-3-642-55099-7_5(145-192)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55099-7_5
Tanter ÉCazzola WGonzález SVan Landuyt DLahire P(2013)Taming aspectsProceedings of the 4th international workshop on Variability & composition10.1145/2451617.2451623(19-19)Online publication date: 26-Mar-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2451617.2451623

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Taming aspects with monads and membranes
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features

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FOAL '13: Proceedings of the 12th workshop on Foundations of aspect-oriented languages

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DOI:10.1145/2451598

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Tanter ÉFigueroa ITabareau N(2014)Execution levels for aspect-oriented programmingScience of Computer Programming10.5555/2748144.274839480:PB(311-342)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2748144.2748394
Figueroa ITabareau NTanter É(2014)Effective Aspects: A Typed Monadic Embedding of Pointcuts and AdviceTransactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development XI10.1007/978-3-642-55099-7_5(145-192)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55099-7_5
Tanter ÉCazzola WGonzález SVan Landuyt DLahire P(2013)Taming aspectsProceedings of the 4th international workshop on Variability & composition10.1145/2451617.2451623(19-19)Online publication date: 26-Mar-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2451617.2451623

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