Hi,

Nick wrote: 
> Well, as I said, something *did* happen to AS2 : it was 
> replaced by AS3. 
> So consider that if you use AS3, it might be replaced by AS4 
> at some time in the future. Sorry for the FUD ;)

It is indeed FUD.  Reality is that what we have done with AS3 is lock
into an ECMA standard. We have co-written AS3 along with other members
of the technical committee, including Microsoft, Mozilla, etc.  So, for
better or for worse the evolution of AS is now defined by the ECMA
committee.  You will see another version of it when Firefox releases a
browser with "JavaScript 2" next year. That is the same thing now as
AS3. You can look at what is still planned for the standard (which
should be approved in a year) and you will be able to see a bunch of
features that will make it into the next versions of AS. So you have
both a roadmap for AS as well as knowledge that the evolution is now
pretty controlled.  We made a big leap with AS3, but we did that to meet
the standard, not to create a new proprietary language.  

-David

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