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<028a01ce033f$262adf90$72809eb0$@usa.net> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:22:23 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Language features From: Nicholas Kwiatkowski To: dev@flex.apache.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b5daf506d7f6904d4f28eb7 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmJVVAu0oqZlf3sOEfVLDP15y9umQL5ujNOeE3Yl4BhzQMM4J/wPdvT5AUDqcFD0YngNooj X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org --047d7b5daf506d7f6904d4f28eb7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was under the impression that they updated the AMF protocol to support Vector... I'm not remembering /where/ I read that, but I remember them saying it was coming... -Nick On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Tianzhen Lin wrote: > Besides strongly-typed dictionary, adding generic support would bring the > language to a more reusable state, so we can say good-bye to > ArrayCollection, but List. > > Additionally, if the AMF also supports generics, that would complete the > whole picture. Currently Vector is not supported in AMF, making it > inconvenient to pass through the wire. > > Tangent > > http://tangentlin.wordpress.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fr=E9d=E9ric THOMAS [mailto:webdoublefx@hotmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 12:50 PM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: Language features > > Btw, maybe strongly-typed Dictionary as well :) > > -Fred > > -----Message d'origine----- > From: Fr=E9d=E9ric THOMAS > Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 6:05 PM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: Language features > > Hi Gordon, > > > Adding abstract classes and private constructors to Falcon should be > > easy > > That's a good news, at this point protected constructor would be welcomed > as well as private constructors are commonly used in classes that contain > static members only. > > And I voting +1 for the rest :-) you gonna make happy a lot of people who > wait for a long time for these features. > > -Fred > > -----Message d'origine----- > From: Gordon Smith > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 7:38 PM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: RE: Language features > > Adding abstract classes and private constructors to Falcon should be easy= . > Adding generics and method overloading would be considerably harder but > probably doable after a lot of design. Two other features worth consideri= ng > are strong function types (i.e., a type like (int, int):String for a > function that takes two ints and returns a String) and strongly-typed fix= ed > arrays (i.e., int[]). > > I'm going to continue to focus on MXML. Until it is finished, we can't > move from the old compiler to the new one. I don't recommend making any > modifications to the old compiler. > > - Gordon > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fr=E9d=E9ric THOMAS [mailto:webdoublefx@hotmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 3:07 AM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: Language features > > +1 Nick > > May be possible, I don't know, time ago, I looked at adding the > possibility to have the constructor accepting other NS than public to > simulate abstract classes and seen 2 places where it was checked but didn= 't > dare to change it besause I didn't know the impacts, I hope someone bette= r > than me here can take care of it, compiler geeks, are you here ? > > -Fred > > -----Message d'origine----- > From: Nick Collins > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 11:24 AM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Language features > > With the cancellation of AVM next, should we perhaps look at adding some > additional language features to our compiler? > > As I think about some of the features I would like to see, such as > abstract classes, generics, method overloading, etc. it seems to me that = at > least some of them could be implemented into our compiler? > > Nick > > --047d7b5daf506d7f6904d4f28eb7--