RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-23 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
It probably does, since they are following the ECMA standard ATM. Would be nice though. -Mark -Original Message- From: Avi Kessner [mailto:akess...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 1:22 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell? Does function

Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-23 Thread DarkStone
[mailto:gosm...@adobe.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:20 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell? the main thrust of the language was a totally new language geared for functional programming, and then some backward compatibility stuff to make it seem

Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-23 Thread Alex Harui
, 2014 11:20 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell? the main thrust of the language was a totally new language geared for functional programming, and then some backward compatibility stuff to make it seem more like ActionScript. I wouldn't characterize

RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread Miguel Ferreira
Silly ideas are always good ideas Let s see where this take us, Flex 5 vs Flex JS? or Flex 5 will be Flex JS? We can enter in a some conspiracy theories that that was always the plan of Adobe :) But with some new fresh blood in the web maybe will be also good for the flex project...

Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread Carlos Velasco
Flex JS is a good approach to some kind of Flex projects, but a lot of projects are not to be translated to JS at all... Then... We better think about a FLEX 5 release out the way JS bullshit world... 2014/1/22 Miguel Ferreira miguel.cd.ferre...@hotmail.com Silly ideas are always good

Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread bkelley
DarkStone wrote I believe Adobe said in the flash runtime roadmap that AS4 was dropped: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html Now they reopen AS4 on GitHub, what does it mean? From the read me on the github project: Adobe is publishing the ActionScript 4

Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread DarkStone
Thanks for the info, Brady. Well the good news is we don't have to start from the ground up to rewrite the Flex framework. DarkStone 2014-01-23 At 2014-01-23 00:15:24,bkelley brady.kel...@cleantelligent.com wrote: DarkStone wrote I believe Adobe said in the flash runtime roadmap that AS4 was

RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
Since this is hosted publicly but not donated, I assume we cannot cherry pick any good changes from as4... -Mark -Original Message- From: bkelley [mailto:brady.kel...@cleantelligent.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:15 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: ActionScript 4

Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread Alex Harui
22, 2014 11:15 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell? DarkStone wrote I believe Adobe said in the flash runtime roadmap that AS4 was dropped: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html Now they reopen AS4 on GitHub, what does it mean

RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
in the same direction as ASC 2 which started getting rid of things we use. -Mark -Original Message- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 12:20 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell? I'm not sure what the rules

RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread Gordon Smith
for us. Assuming it wasn't in the same direction as ASC 2 which started getting rid of things we use. -Mark -Original Message- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 12:20 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell

Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread Alex Harui
[mailto:mark.kessler@usmc.mil] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 10:32 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell? Well using the assumption that AS 4 would be an improvement in some area's from AS3 even if it was an incomplete work. While I haven't looked at it yet, I

RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread Gordon Smith
@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell? Adobe designed AS4 to be the language for a new Flash runtime (V12) that it was working on but dropped. (I was working on the AS4 compiler then.) Not all features of AS4 can be implemented -- at least not easily and efficiently

RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread Gordon Smith
ints and returned a String. It also added array types like var a:[]int; - Gordon -Original Message- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:06 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell? On 1/22/14 10:55 AM, Gordon

RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread Avi Kessner
-Original Message- From: Gordon Smith [mailto:gosm...@adobe.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:20 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell? the main thrust of the language was a totally new language geared for functional programming, and then some

Re: ActionScript 4? What the hell?

2014-01-22 Thread Alex Harui
[mailto:gosm...@adobe.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:20 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: ActionScript 4? What the hell? the main thrust of the language was a totally new language geared for functional programming, and then some backward compatibility stuff to make it seem more like