Not sure it's worth the trouble, but did you have some particular technique in mind?
I think I might have asked about this before, but if MXML had a way to do constructor injection it could also help frameworks like Mate so they don't need tags with attributes called "arguments". On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > You could write your set functions to be write-once. > > > > On 7/23/10 11:35 AM, "Richard Rodseth" <rrods...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Getting a little off-topic, but in case anyone's interested: > > > http://www.developer.com/lang/other/article.php/3874551/Clojure-Immutability-at-the-Language-Level.htm > > One Flex-specific wrinkle is that if you define a class with a >1 argument > constructor and getters only, you can't instantiate it in MXML. And in AS3, > you can't have mutliple constructors. I'm not sure, but I imagine some of > the serialization libraries for JSON etc might have issues too if you don't > have the zero-argument constructor. > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Richard Rodseth <rrods...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Yes, obviously. But not the same thing. > > > If you write your VO’s to have only get functions, they are effectively > immutable. > > > > > > > > On 7/23/10 8:56 AM, "Richard Rodseth" <rrods...@gmail.com < > http://rrods...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > Interesting. I haven't used that one either. > > The docs emphasize the addEventListener capability, which I guess > distinguishes this from plain old Object, which can also hold arbitrary > properties. > > http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/utils/ObjectProxy.html > > As an aside, I would love to have language support for designating VOs as > immutable. > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com < > http://aha...@adobe.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > ObjectProxy is a generic VO. It is dynamic and can hold any properties and > values. And it is slow. Best to create custom Vos that are strongly typed. > > > > On 7/22/10 2:52 PM, "mark.embrey" <mark.c.emb...@gmail.com < > http://mark.c.emb...@gmail.com> <http://mark.c.emb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > I'm trying to wrap my feeble brain around these concepts. > > Are they the same? -similar? -completely different? > > Your feedback will be appreciated by this greenhorn. > > Mark > > > > > > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe System, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
