Hi all, I am ripping my hair off trying to figure out whether to create a parallel collections framework or somehow extend the current one. While sticking to the IList and ICollectionView interfaces provide immediate interoperability with the rest of the framework, they introduce ambiguity, performance penalties and semantic distortion when using it for more complex stuff. ( using a List where a Set is needed, no events on dictionary objects, no sequential access interface, etc ).
While trying to implement something like the C++ STL in flash would definitely be overkill, I think that the core subset of Java collections framework would be definitely nice and feasible. It is not hard to retrofit IList to extend ICollection ( or IMultiSet ), and to extend the CollectionEvent to support plain membership change notifications when applicable. I would forget about identity definition ( comparators ) for now and stick to simple equality ( == ) in favor of performance and simplicity. Comments, anyone? Thanks, Aldo -- :::: Aldo Bucchi :::: +1 858 539 6986 +56 9 8429 8300 +56 9 7623 8653 skype:aldo.bucchi
