[royale-asjs] branch develop updated: add a custom string coercion support for XMLList instances (instead of Language.string in this case, to avoid implicit valueOf() calls)

[gregdove]

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/develop by this push:
     new 03f34f265a add a custom string coercion support for XMLList instances 
(instead of Language.string in this case, to avoid implicit valueOf() calls)
03f34f265a is described below

commit 03f34f265aadcd281dc85c4dab2ded74d72fc263
Author: greg-dove <greg.d...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Jul 11 17:18:28 2022 +1200

    add a custom string coercion support for XMLList instances (instead of 
Language.string in this case, to avoid implicit valueOf() calls)
---
 frameworks/projects/XML/src/main/royale/XMLList.as | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/frameworks/projects/XML/src/main/royale/XMLList.as 
b/frameworks/projects/XML/src/main/royale/XMLList.as
index cdd907ea33..324f53d054 100644
--- a/frameworks/projects/XML/src/main/royale/XMLList.as
+++ b/frameworks/projects/XML/src/main/royale/XMLList.as
@@ -63,6 +63,16 @@ package
                        if (typeof other == 'boolean') other = ('' + 
other);//force a string comparison
                        return (list as Object) == other;
                }
+
+               /**
+                * Compiler-only method to stringification, which avoids 
valueOf calls.
+                *
+                * @private
+                * @royalesuppressexport
+                */
+               public static function coerce_string(list:XMLList):String{
+                       return list !== null ? String(list) : null;
+               }
                
                public function XMLList(expression:Object = null)
                {