joshtynjala commented on issue #100: Literal string to identify package public namespace URL: https://github.com/apache/royale-compiler/issues/100#issuecomment-560555288 As best I can tell, Adobe actually intended for ASC 2.0 to be unable to allow a namespace defined in ActionScript code to access a package. Inside the compiler code, all namespaces have a "kind", and there are several of these kinds. There's a kind for namespaces defined in ActionScript code, a kind for protected, a kind for private, a kind for packages, and some others. The code that determines if two namespaces are equal requires that the "kind" of both namespaces is also equal. So, a namespace defined in ActionScript code (`ABCConstants.CONSTANT_Namespace`) can never be equal to a package namespace (`ABCConstants.CONSTANT_PackageNs`). To me this does not seem like something that should have a special exception. It seems like the Adobe engineers designed it to work this way on purpose. In fact, there are a number of differences between ASC 2.0 and the original Flex SDK compiler that makes ASC 2.0 more strict, much like this. Just out of curiosity, have you discovered a use for this behavior that would otherwise be impossible by importing the type instead?
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