Mike Keesey hit the nail on the head. By primitives, I meant null, undefined,
numeric, boolean, and string literals (4, true, "some text").
Literal Object and Array instances ( {}, [] ) can also work like primitives in
a class definition, but they behave a bit oddly because they end up sitting in
a class's prototype instead of in a class instance.
BTW, you also can't do this:
class MyClass
{
private static var kMyState:String = "value"; // good
private static var kMyInitialState:String = kMyState; // bad
}
You've have to write
private static var kMyInitialState:String = "value";
in order to get the compiler to allow this.
-mark
>
> From: "Mendelsohn, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2006/06/27 Tue AM 11:55:41 CDT
> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] init TextFormat prop in a class
>
> Thanks, Mike and John for your responses.
> John: what do you mean by primitives?
>
> - MM
>
>
>
> > Class properties can only be initialized with primitives outside of a
> constructor
>
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