I hope my last post didn't count as "general discussion"? If so, I apologize. It was meant as a concrete implementation issue.
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Frank Wienberg <fr...@jangaroo.net> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: > >> [#Insert 'goog.requires()'; the equivalent of 'import' in AS] > > > We should take care to only generate goog.requires() for imports that are > actually used in the generated code. > For example, as long as we do not perform type checks at runtime, an > import of a class only used in a type cast can safely be dropped and might > reduce the overall code size if the class happens to not be used in the > application. > Also, *-imports would have to be resolved. So I'd rather not say that > requires is the equivalent of import. We just need import statements to > resolve not-fully-qualified identifiers, the dependencies have to > be tracked seperately. > > -Frank- >
