I'm happy to report that version 1.00 of Aspect.pm has been uploaded to CPAN, and so Perl's Aspect-Oriented Programming toolkit is now officially done.

http://svn.ali.as/cpan/releases/Aspect-1.00.tar.gz

The API should remain stable for some time (until the notional 2.00 with it's major rewrite into opcode manipulating XS). Most future changes in the 1.00 series should comprise additions of keywords or features, and code written now should be forward compatible.

But what is Aspect-Oriented Programming, and…

Around Christmas 2009 I took over Aspect.pm, a first-generation implementation of Aspect-Oriented Programming for Perl based on Hook::Lexwrap

Over the last year and a half I've expanded functionality, cut back dependencies to a minimum, optimised the hell out of it, and written a ton of documentation and a comprehensive test suite.

This second-generation implementation has now reached about as far as I can take it without resorting to exotic XS code to replace some of the exotic Perl code. So after a final 2 week sprint to smooth off some ugly corners, in the next few days I'l…