I’m not going to claim I understand what you just wrote. ;-)

I’ll see if I can understand the output…

Thanks.

> On Jul 17, 2017, at 10:33 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> wrote:
> 
> Thinking about it more, I think a parameter of type Function never needs
> to be wrapped.  It would get wrapped on any assignment in the function
> body.  I just pushed changes to reflect that.
> 
> -Alex
> 
> On 7/16/17, 11:41 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> wrote:
> 
>> Seems reasonable to add a check to see if the function body is for a
>> static method.
>> 
>> -Alex
>> 
>> On 7/16/17, 11:25 PM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> A directive could be a solution.
>>> 
>>> But I think this is an issue with any static method. If a closure is used
>>> inside a static method, or a function declared inside a static method, it
>>> should not use Language.closure.
>>> 
>>> FWIW, the Google compile complains about “this” being used in a static
>>> method as well:
>>> 
>>>   [mxmlc] Jul 16, 2017 7:26:08 PM
>>> com.google.javascript.jscomp.LoggerErrorManager println
>>>   [mxmlc] WARNING:
>>> /Users/harbs/Documents/ApacheFlex/flex-asjs/examples/flexjs/DebuggingExam
>>> p
>>> le/bin/js-debug/org/apache/flex/utils/callLater.js:35: WARNING -
>>> dangerous use of this in static method org.apache.flex.utils.callLater
>>>   [mxmlc]   
>>> setTimeout(org.apache.flex.utils.Language.closure(makeCalls, this,
>>> 'makeCalls'), 0);
>>> 
>>> Package level functions should be treated as static methods.
>>> 
>>> It might not be a bad idea to add a directive to allow developers to
>>> avoid Language.closure calls at will, but I think the “correct” general
>>> solution is to never output Language.closure in static and package level
>>> functions.
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 17, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I don't see any current way to suppress the Language.closure.  Without
>>>> flow-analysis, I'm not sure the compiler can tell.  It could guess that
>>>> the identifier is a parameter, but the parameter variable could be
>>>> assigned within the function body.
>>>> 
>>>> We could add a new directive like @flexjsisclosure or something like
>>>> that.
>>>> 
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>> -Alex
>>>> 
>>>> On 7/16/17, 10:05 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I figured out the problem.
>>>>> 
>>>>> org.apache.flex.utils.callLater has the following code:
>>>>> setTimeout(makeCalls, 0);
>>>>> 
>>>>> That compiles to:
>>>>> setTimeout(org.apache.flex.utils.Language.closure(makeCalls, this,
>>>>> 'makeCalls'), 0);
>>>>> 
>>>>> When Language.closure is called, it messes up the scope of the calls
>>>>> variable and subsequent calls to makeCalls step on each other. I
>>>>> believe
>>>>> this is because makeCalls is bound to the package object of the
>>>>> callLater
>>>>> function.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there any way to prevent rewriting of function calls to
>>>>> Language.closure?
>>>>> 
>>>>> If "setTimeout(makeCalls, 0);" is cross-compiled exactly to:
>>>>> "setTimeout(makeCalls, 0);", it works like I’d expect it to.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Harbs
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jul 16, 2017, at 3:46 PM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Interesting to note:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Adding a number of callLater() calls resulted in only the first one
>>>>>> being called in JS. I did not try as a SWF.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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