I don't really care whether they allow private constructors or not, as long as they provide some way of accomplishing the same thing. Specifically, I want to be able to: 1) Limit the number of instances of certain classes (singletons, enumerations). 2) Have methods which are not attached to specific class instances. 3) Be able to create classes that cannot be instantiated themselves but can be superclasses of concrete classes.
#3 for example, is much better implemented with the "abstract" keyword than with private constructors, but AS3.0 doesn't have the "abstract" keyword, so now there is no way to elegantly accomplish this (i.e., in such a way that errors are caught at compile-time instead of runtime). So, yeah, make all constructors public if you must, but give us some other way to accomplish these things. -- T. Michael Keesey _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
