RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) ***

2009-08-13 Thread Tracy Spratt
Ah, I see something I missed at first. This example is using literal xml, so the null IS getting interpreted by AS as null and not as a string. I bet it would be different if you did: var xml:XML = XML(outerinnernull/inner/outer); Even so I am still surprised because the null should be the

RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) ***

2009-08-13 Thread Dave Glasser
. --- On Thu, 8/13/09, Tracy Spratt tr...@nts3rd.com wrote: From: Tracy Spratt tr...@nts3rd.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) *** To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 3:49 PM

RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) ***

2009-08-13 Thread Tracy Spratt
The length is 1. --- On Thu, 8/13/09, Tracy Spratt tr...@nts3rd.com wrote: From: Tracy Spratt tr...@nts3rd.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) *** To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 3:49 PM Ah, I see

RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) ***

2009-08-13 Thread Gordon Smith
: Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:10 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) *** Ok, if you say so. What is the result of your investigation? It gets kind of complicated because AS does implicit toString

RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) ***

2009-08-13 Thread Dave Glasser
--- On Thu, 8/13/09, Tracy Spratt tr...@nts3rd.com wrote: Ok, if you say so. What is the result of your investigation? I just checked, and it does indeed convert null to null. So it's effectively the same with or without the curly braces. The element contains a String 4 characters long.

RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) ***

2009-08-13 Thread Dave Glasser
/13/09, Gordon Smith gosm...@adobe.com wrote: From: Gordon Smith gosm...@adobe.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) *** To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 6:54 PM

RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) ***

2009-08-13 Thread Gordon Smith
@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: *** So you think you know ActionScript? (Read original post first) *** By my reading, everything seems to be working how it's supposed to work. But how it's supposed to work is very surprising to me. And it's not really E4X that's producing the odd behavior