Hi Gordon,
Adding abstract classes and private constructors to Falcon should be easy
That's a good news, at this point protected constructor would be welcomed as
well as private constructors are commonly used in classes that contain
static members only.
And I voting +1 for the rest :-) you gonna make happy a lot of people who
wait for a long time for these features.
-Fred
-----Message d'origine-----
From: Gordon Smith
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 7:38 PM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: RE: Language features
Adding abstract classes and private constructors to Falcon should be easy.
Adding generics and method overloading would be considerably harder but
probably doable after a lot of design. Two other features worth considering
are strong function types (i.e., a type like (int, int):String for a
function that takes two ints and returns a String) and strongly-typed fixed
arrays (i.e., int[]).
I'm going to continue to focus on MXML. Until it is finished, we can't move
from the old compiler to the new one. I don't recommend making any
modifications to the old compiler.
- Gordon
-----Original Message-----
From: Frédéric THOMAS [mailto:webdoubl...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 3:07 AM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: Re: Language features
+1 Nick
May be possible, I don't know, time ago, I looked at adding the possibility
to have the constructor accepting other NS than public to simulate abstract
classes and seen 2 places where it was checked but didn't dare to change it
besause I didn't know the impacts, I hope someone better than me here can
take care of it, compiler geeks, are you here ?
-Fred
-----Message d'origine-----
From: Nick Collins
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 11:24 AM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: Language features
With the cancellation of AVM next, should we perhaps look at adding some
additional language features to our compiler?
As I think about some of the features I would like to see, such as abstract
classes, generics, method overloading, etc. it seems to me that at least
some of them could be implemented into our compiler?
Nick
