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Communications of the ACM
Aspect-oriented programming: Introduction
Communications of the ACM
ECOOP '01 Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Supporting Unanticipated Dynamic Adaptation of Application Behaviour
ECOOP '02 Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
AspectS - Aspect-Oriented Programming with Squeak
NODe '02 Revised Papers from the International Conference NetObjectDays on Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a Networked World
Partial behavioral reflection: spatial and temporal selection of reification
OOPSLA '03 Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programing, systems, languages, and applications
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Composition, reuse and interaction analysis of stateful aspects
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
AspectJ in Action: Practical Aspect-Oriented Programming
AspectJ in Action: Practical Aspect-Oriented Programming
Classbox/J: controlling the scope of change in Java
OOPSLA '05 Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Adding trace matching with free variables to AspectJ
OOPSLA '05 Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Language constructs for context-oriented programming: an overview of ContextL
DLS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 symposium on Dynamic languages
A compilation and optimization model for aspect-oriented programs
CC'03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Compiler construction
A versatile kernel for multi-language AOP
GPCE'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering
SC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Software Composition
SC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Software Composition
Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development I
Flexible metaprogramming and AOP in Java
Science of Computer Programming
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Many crosscutting mechanisms proposed in the literature offer means to restrain aspects to some dynamically-defined scopes. Dynamically-scoped mechanisms are particularly interesting because of the flexibility, expressiveness, and control they give over structural and behavioral changes made by aspects. Since the nature of dynamic scopes as well as the scoping mechanisms themselves greatly vary among proposals, It is relatively complex to compare them. This paper aims at filling this gap by proposing a first characterization of dynamically-scoped crosscutting mechanisms, hence providing a reference frame for comparing different approaches. As a result, this work clarifies some differences between related approaches, suggests possible tracks for further exploration of the design space of such mechanisms, and discusses some issues raised by dynamically-scoped aspects.