Hi, I expect we evolve our languages and compilers to be smarter and we get things like Typed Arrays, Generics, and other things other since TypeScript or haXe already supports it. So I talk with many people that said me "why use AS3 when I can use TypeScript that has all this things and are most widely supported?"... and we must said that this people are right...
This is not my zone of expertise, so hope others could make this happen. I think we have the tools and all the pieces to do this, so it's a matter of having the right people that want to make this possible. Thanks Carlos 2018-06-29 10:12 GMT+02:00 Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com>: > There is something I’ve been struggling with: > > AS3 does not have “typed” arrays. The closest it has is Vectors. The > problem with vectors is two-fold. First of all, the cross compiler uses > Language to construct the vector rather than simply declaring an array. > This could probably be fixed though. The second problem is that it’s > awkward converting between arrays and vectors. This is especially > problematic when you want to “cast” an array retrieved from say JSON to a > typed Vector. It’s also a problem if you want to use Array features such as > map and the like. > > I’m not sure what the right solution to improving this would be. Expand > Vector to allow arrays and Vectors to be cast as each other? Create a new > “array type" declaration (i.e. var arr:String[] = [“foo”,”baz”];)? > Something else? > > Thoughts? > Harbs > > -- Carlos Rovira http://about.me/carlosrovira
