It's always nice to have an inconvient but useful mechanism to get around these edge cases ... even at an order magnitude's extra cost to the invoker of the backdoor. That's a reasonable tradeoff as long as supporting this it doen't incur any significat overhead to the normal, non-subverted invokations.
In java it's reflection (and taken to the nth degree byte code manipulation). It's not for the meek, but that hopefully limits the subversion of the type system to edge use cases where people truly understand they are operating in the "deprecated" zone and the risks therein. After a quick read, I'm not 100% sure AS3's Proxy would completely solve the issue of accessing the Flex 1.5 drag proxy. I tend to agree with the general philosophy of AS3.... --- In [email protected], "Matt Chotin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The describeType utility will give you information about variables > accessible to you, I think it will not give you information about > privates if you are not an instance of that class. > > Agreed that manipulation of privates is sometimes useful, I know lots of > people like to do the prototype hacking that Jesse mentioned, but the > benefits in locking some of this stuff down from an API cleanliness > perspective, developer predictability, and finally performance, seem to > outweigh what we lost. > > Matt > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
