Benno wrote:
> Umm, I can't remember the other things right now. ;) It was by no means
> perfect
> and had plenty of warts, but it was definately better than I was expecting ;)
The stuff I was finding really unpaletable about Actionscript (which
seems so much like Javascript) is the the functional code (ie no
classes) has close to zero sanity checking in the compiler that
compiles it into a ShockWaveFlash file. In addition, the run time
environment had close to zero error reporting. This means that
things like having a variable name mis-spelled would not cause and
error message at compile time nor would it complain at run time.
Instead, it would just silent fail to do what i wanted it to.
The OO stuff in Actionscript is better because suddenly some of these
things start getting checked at compile time. There are still really
big screw ups possible.
I once spent about 2 hours trying figure out a problem when I had
defined a class named say Yada and then did:
some_var = Yada () ;
instead of:
some_var = new Yada () ;
Crap like this is like riding high powered motorcycles with bald
tires at high speed in the rain during a cyclone. You are almost
guaranteed to hurt yourself.
Erik
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