See here under asdoc tags: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=asdoc_1.html
The @eventType tells the ASDoc generator that what it's seeing on that line is something special and needs to be dealt with in a special way. It shouldn't affect your application's code execution in any way. I'm not from Adobe though so my response is nothing official...it's just what I've gathered from experience. Aaron On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:55 PM, ztpi1 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I notice that the flex source files have commented out sections like this > one: > > ** > * Dispatched after the Application has been initialized, > * processed by the LayoutManager, and attached to the display list. > * > * @eventType mx.events.FlexEvent.APPLICATION_COMPLETE > */ > > Is the @ symbol significant here? Does the compiler see the line with the @ > symbol or is it merely for reader information? > > It is my understanding that the @ symbol denotes an XML attribute, is that > the correct interpretation? > > >

