No, there is no operator overloading in AS3. But neither in Java afaik. Cheers, Ralf.
On 8/8/06, thunderstumpgesatwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running into these issues also. I'm considering porting the java > BigInteger class to Flex (or at least part of it). Does anyone know if > this has been done already? > > I have a question, is it possible to implement functions for the > operators? For instance == or + or - ? This is something I wondered > about previously, but it seems even more important when implementing a > numeric class like BigInteger. > > thanks, > Thunder > > > > --- In [email protected], "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If someone wants to tackle this, I'm pretty sure we'd distribute it on > > Labs if you wanted to make it available to the AS3 community. > > > > > > > > - Gordon > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Spike > > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:56 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Handling VERY large numbers in Flex > > > > > > > > It might be possible to port the Java BigInteger class to AS3. The Java > > source code is available, so it ought to be possible to see fairly > > quickly whether it could work or not. > > > > Spike > > > > On 2/21/06, Niklas Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Crap! > > > > I thought as much after reading something about ColdFusion and large > > integers and having to use the Java BigInt class. > > > > Oh well. I wonder whether 15 significant decimal digits will be enough! > > ;) haha! > > > > Cheers > > > > Niklas > > > > > > > > On 2/21/06, Gordon Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > You have a problem... a Number can't store more than 15 or 16 > > significant decimal digits. If you need more, you're going to have to > > write or acquire the equivalent of a BigInteger class, which would > > probably use arbitrarily long Strings to store arbitrarily large > > integers. > > > > > > > > - Gordon > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Niklas Richardson > > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:09 AM > > To: Flex Coders > > Subject: [flexcoders] Handling VERY large numbers in Flex > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > We're building an app that requires taking as input very large integers > > (e.g. 22222222222222222222, that's 20 '2's). > > > > However, Flash is converting that to exponential notation > > (2.22222222222222e+19). > > > > However, we don't want it to go into exponential notation. > > > > Has anyone else had to deal with very large integers in Flash? 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