Toon Van de Putte wrote:
I was wondering if the following two lines of code are just different
ways
of doing the same thing:
var myVar = new Number();
myVar ="0";
Using new Number is... silly. The Number-object is quite useless and
can't be used for anything, that a regular number can't. Use normal
numbers and use numbers:
var myVar:Number = 0;
Or casting:
var myVar:Number = Number("0");
Or parsing:
var myVar:Number = parseInt("0");
The fact that you set a variable to something, and then set it to
something else does not change anything. Sometimes you see people do:
var foo = new Array();
foo = bar.slice();
Why set it to a new arary, when you set it to something else (and
deletes the old reference) anyway. ActionScript does not work this way.
Set your variable, to what it is supposed to be.
To sum up: Assignment does not look at the current value at all - it
deletes the current value and assigns the new one.
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