> My point is that every time there's a new language (yes I've been > around for awhile :) there are people complaining that it's unlike > some other language (mostly an older one). It's understandable, but > I also know that the people implementing the language spec's for the > most parts is not inexperienced fools. There's in all properly a > reason for the missing 'feature', and it just _might_ be that the > language does in fact support the desired construct but in a > different way than the one you are used to. A new language is often > more productive than the older one _overall_, but some specifics > might become more tedious on account of the re-arrangement in > complexity. You simply cannot progress and keep everything as is. > This also applies for humans.
Yes, this is certainly true in general. What I still don't get though is how it applies to this specific topic. I still miss any reason why permitting private constructors might have any undesirable side- effects for AS 3 as a whole? And note that they are not only used for singletons, I also use them for faking abstract classes in AS 2, and since AS 3 still does not introduce this feature, it would be nice to at least be able to "hide" the constructor with a private access modifier (or rather protected in AS 3 I assume). Note that even the APIs for Flash Player 8.5 use the concept of abstract classes, but with a rather ugly workaround. From the docs for the DisplayObject class: DisplayObject is an abstract base class; therefore, you cannot call DisplayObject directly. Invoking new DisplayObject() throws an ArgumentError exception. This does not feel right. This is something that should be enforced at compile time. Either through making the class abstract or through making the constructor inaccessible. (Btw: Otherwise I think the new Display API is great) Jens www.oregano-server.org -- 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/
