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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:57:02 -0800
Subject: Re: Goal for Flex: Strengthening large-scale Flex applications
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On 1/11/12 11:47 AM, "Sebastian Mohr" <masuland@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry ... where is a constraint environment in an open Apache Flex?
Flash is a constrained environment.  It is a VM running in a browser in an
operating system, surrounded by various layers of security.  Developing for
it is not too far removed from the old days of fitting a DOS program into
640K of memory.

Even if the language allowed abstract classes, the overhead of having them
is too high.  Having interfaces for every class is too expensive.  Thus, no
rule can be universally applied.

--=20
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui