> I see the point.. while I understand that you don't have time for it now... 
> but Are you think that one of the next releases coming could add this? This 
> is an interesting feature to leave the language more orthogonal specially for 
> the ones using the @AspectJ style like me since a time ago

Yes, a future version should add it. But that is unlikely to be 1.8.7 without a 
pull request, maybe not even 1.9.0.

cheers,
Andy

> On Jun 22, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Henrique Rebêlo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Andy!
> 
> Well it makes sense to do it, but as to *when* I’m not sure. Definitely worth 
> getting a bugzilla enhancement logged in the system.
> 
> OK. 
> 
> Feels something that could be done by a separate contributor actually - it 
> isn’t *too* complicated, that I could probably guide. But I’m not sure I have 
> time to implement it myself right now.
> 
> I see the point.. while I understand that you don't have time for it now... 
> but Are you think that one of the next releases coming could add this? This 
> is an interesting feature to leave the language more orthogonal specially for 
> the ones using the @AspectJ style like me since a time ago
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Andy Clement <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Well it makes sense to do it, but as to *when* I’m not sure. Definitely worth 
> getting a bugzilla enhancement logged in the system.
> 
> Feels something that could be done by a separate contributor actually - it 
> isn’t *too* complicated, that I could probably guide. But I’m not sure I have 
> time to implement it myself right now.
> 
> cheers,
> Andy
> 
>> On Jun 19, 2015, at 6:57 PM, Henrique Rebêlo <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> So, What you think Andy? Is there a chance to implement this feature?
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Henrique Rebêlo <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hi Andy,
>> 
>> Thanks for answering! That's good see the support for the classical 
>> syntax... but the @annotation style need to be updated... I'm not talking 
>> about if pointcuts. See bellow:
>> 
>> public interface I {
>>      
>>      @Pointcut("execution( * *(..))")
>>      public static void pc(){}
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> We both know that interfaces now support static methods and we also know 
>> that the above pointcut (which does not include an if pointcut) is valid if 
>> declared within a class, but it's forbidden within an interface... the 
>> compiler says the following:
>> 
>>                   "pointcuts can only be declared in a class or an aspect"
>> 
>> cheers
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Andy Clement <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Well, we do already support pointcut declarations in interfaces:
>> 
>> interface I {
>>   pointcut p(): execution(* main(..));
>> }
>> 
>> aspect X {
>>   before(): I.p() {
>>     System.out.println(">>");
>>   }
>> }
>> 
>> public class Code {
>>   public static void main(String[] argv) {
>>   }
>> }
>> 
>> But I suppose if you especially mean annotation style pointcuts in 
>> interfaces (as in your example if() pointcut).  We certainly could improve 
>> the story here.
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Andy
>> 
>>> On Jun 12, 2015, at 6:34 PM, Henrique Rebêlo <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Andy and all,
>>> 
>>> I was wondering that now AspectJ should support pointcut declarations in 
>>> interfaces. New features in Java 8 include static method declarations or 
>>> default method declarations in an interface. Hence, I believe to make the 
>>> AspectJ language more orthogonal and symmetric, we should consider to have 
>>> pointcut declarations in aspects, classes and also interfaces.
>>> 
>>> I think that one design decision that is forbidding pointcuts on interfaces 
>>> is that before we couldn't write methods with bodies in interfaces, thus 
>>> avoiding the use of the main design (specially in @AspectJ where we need 
>>> method bodies for If pointcuts)...
>>> 
>>> What you think? This is just an advice (not AspectJ advice :-) to make the 
>>> AspectJ sync with Java.
>>> 
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