Nick, +1 or even 10
-Fred
-----Message d'origine-----
From: Nicholas Kwiatkowski
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 6:58 PM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: Re: Language features
I'd be fairly excited to see method overloading. It's one of the things I
miss from Java...
-Nick
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Avi Kessner <akess...@gmail.com> wrote:
If it was up to me, I would vote against method overloading. I think
that's a code smell personally.
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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
>
>
