Just wondering if anyone else had this problem. I decided to migrate by asteroids code to AS3, and found most of the commands I used were either completely removed or redefined. It looks like I'm going to have to rewrite the entire program rather thans simply change a few things. Really, really dissheartening.
I like to believe that's frustrating but necessary. AS1/AS2 had come a long way, and it was time for a slight syntax overhaul on the original API. For example, what's up with having objects created by special commands instead of constructors (for example, createEmptyMovieClip), methods that didn't even follow a naming convention (for example, createEmptyMovieClip vs attachMovie), no clear naming convention either on properties (_stuff versus stuff) and little 'gotchas' on the case of a few properties (_currentframe, maxscroll)?
Hence why having .addChild, .removeChild, and renaming many other things like that make a lot of sense. There's the initial bump, but after that I'm confident the language will look better as a whole instead of just being a patch on the previous version.
Also, you probably already have this, but in case you don't, this might help:
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