If it was up to me, I would vote against method overloading. I think that's a code smell personally.
brought to you by the letters A, V, and I and the number 47 On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Frédéric THOMAS <webdoubl...@hotmail.com>wrote: > 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:webdoublefx@hotmail.**com<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 > >
