> Hopefully Adobe will follow suit: As far as I understand, our plans are for the next version of ActionScript to be ES4-compliant. - Gordon
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of supertodda Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 9:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: nulling primitive data types Sorry to double post, but below is the word from the ES4 guys. Looks like nullable primitive types are in the new spec. Hopefully Adobe will follow suit: ------------------------------------------- > Just for clairification... These wrapper classes will be available in > the NEXT version of es4? There is only one version of ES4 (after that it will be ES5...) ActionScript 3 serves as a basis for ES4 but ES4 is not quite compatible with AS3. The ES4 design docs on the wiki do not always explain the current state of the language; we're not updating them any more. (Tentatively the ES4 spec will be complete next year.) --lars > -----Original Message----- > Subject: Re: Proposal: nullable wrapper class for primitive data types > (int, Number, Boolean) > > Those pages are probably somewhat out of date. > > At present we have Boolean, Number, and String which are nullable > wrapper classes for boolean, double, and string, respectively. Is > there a particular reason you would need specific wrappers for int and > could not make do with Number? > > If the recordset "will return a null value for an int typed column" > then arguably the type of the column is (int,null), not int. The > former is expressible in ECMAScript 4 either like that or as "int?". > Will that not do? > > --lars --------------------------------------------------------
