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Language basics in ActionScript 3
+ActionScript is a superset of the ecma 4 spec. That gives it the same roots as
Javascript and code will look very similar. The biggest difference is the
optionally typed quality of ActionScript, and classes. Ecma 6 added classes to
Javascript as well, but Javascript classes are less structured that
ActionScript classes.
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+Because ActionScript was forked from the ecma spec at version 4, there are
features that Javascript has which are missing from ActionScript and vice
versa. Below is an overview of the main ActionScript features.
## Scope
There are four levels of access scope in ActionScript:
