RE: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
I agree along the lines of Mark. From a developer perspective, I'm always cautious of different flavors of languages which require special compilers, or alternative languages and compilers, like haxe. Several reasons: 1. What happens when you leave the project/company and the next developer

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Winterhalder
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: 2. Time it can take to learn something like haxe doesn't seem to give you enough ROI - at least my impression having looked at haxe as an alternative. I have to disagree here -- learning haXe has definitely

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-08 Thread Anthony Pace
The only thing that I would suggest, is that he tighten the compiler code and perhaps expose low level features if it is possible to do so just through an edit of the p code. It is still compiled into pcode right? or am I out of date... Merrill, Jason wrote: I agree along the lines of Mark.

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-07 Thread Juan Delgado
Take a look to the haXe compiler that is doing it already: http://haxe.org/doc/features Specially compiler features (conditional compilation, etc) and language features (enums, etc). Cheers! Juan On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Weyert de Boer w...@innerfuse.biz wrote: In Delphi and C# I

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-07 Thread Manish Jethani
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Ian Thomas i...@eirias.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Manish Jethani manish.jeth...@gmail.com wrote: The first enhancement I can think of is a language extension called 'properties'. private var _myProperty:int = 0; public function get

RE: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
You may want to look at the haxe language and compiler which already does what you're trying to do and see if you can compete with that - or at least find out what it does that you would like to do - this thread may be better suited for the osflash list only because this is the kind of thing

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-07 Thread Matthias Kramm
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:27:06AM -0500, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: You may want to look at the haxe language and compiler which already does what you're trying to do and see if you can compete with that haxe is a nifty project. But they're inventing their own

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Winterhalder
I think another compiler with a focus on more efficient bytecode would be great, but those extra convenience features give me an uneasy feeling (embrace and extend has caused too many problems already). So, my feature request would be an export functionality to remove all those extra features

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-06 Thread Matt Muller
you can already do trailing comma's cant you? I know you can in arrays. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Matthias Kramm kr...@quiss.org wrote: Hi All, I'm currently in the process of writing a compiler for ActionScript 3.0. (In case you're interested, the development snapshot at

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-06 Thread Manish Jethani
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Matthias Kramm kr...@quiss.org wrote: I'm currently in the process of writing a compiler for ActionScript 3.0. (In case you're interested, the development snapshot at http://www.swftools.org/download.html already contains a pre-alpha command-line tool,

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-06 Thread Ian Thomas
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Manish Jethani manish.jeth...@gmail.com wrote: The first enhancement I can think of is a language extension called 'properties'. private var _myProperty:int = 0; public function get myProperty():int { return _myProperty; } public

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-06 Thread David Hershberger
Dunno if you're going to implement [Bindable], which is I guess part of Flex, but if you do... https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-14475 and https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-9804 describe the fact that we can't use data-binding to watch the changes of read-only properties. This ability

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-06 Thread Weyert de Boer
In Delphi and C# I used it to get RTTI information. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders