A Typed Monadic Embedding of Aspects

Nicolas Tabareau (1, 2) , Ismael Figueroa (3) , Éric Tanter (3)

1 ASCOLA - Aspect and composition languages
2 LINA - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique
3 DCC - Computer Science Department [Santiago]

We describe a novel approach to embed pointcut/advice aspects in a typed functional programming language like Haskell. Aspects are first-class, can be deployed dynamically, and the pointcut language is extensible. Type soundness is guaranteed by exploiting the un- derlying type system, in particular phantom types and a new anti- unification type class. The use of monads brings type-based rea- soning about effects for the first time in the pointcut/advice setting, thereby practically combining Open Modules and EffectiveAdvice, and enables modular extensions of the aspect language.

Domaines: Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

Nicolas Tabareau, Ismael Figueroa, Éric Tanter. A Typed Monadic Embedding of Aspects. 12th annual international conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (Modularity-AOSD'13), Mar 2013, Fukuoka, Japan. ⟨hal-00763695⟩