"port" is a word that business people use to make rewriting an application sound easy.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Darren Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > @Darren. Thanks for the input. Do you think it will be much effort to > > port my exisiting AS2 code to AS3? > > I've just finished porting one largish application and it took a lot > longer than expected. I was expecting I'd just have to tweak a bit of > syntax, but I ended up needing to rewrite most stuff. AS2 was an ugly > language, and I had lots of complex code that just disappeared when > ported to AS3; but keeping that ugly complex code wasn't possible, hence > the need to rewrite. > > The other specific problem I had was I could no longer assign undefined > to a variable, or null to a Number. I was using undefined and null to > mean different things in some places. The Number things was particularly > annoying as everywhere I assigned undefined or null I now needed to > assign NaN. But then n==NaN is not possible and has to be rewritten > isNan(n). > > Loading takes more lines of code. But I wrapped that all in a class > (which I'll release as open source when I have time). > > > > I'm glad to hear you also use Scite; so are we not missing out on > > great functionality by not using elipse? > > I have found Eclipse very slow to start and very cluttered. With SciTE I > can open the file, go to the problem line, fix the problem and > recompile, all in the time it takes Eclipse to display its splash logo. > Perhaps I never spent enough time climbing the Eclipse learning curve... > > Darren > > > -- > Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer > http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese-Arabic > open source dictionary/semantic network) > http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) > http://darrendev.blogspot.com/ (blog on php, flash, i18n, linux, ...) > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > osflash@osflash.org > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org >
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