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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:51:13 +0900
From: Martin Heidegger <mh@leichtgewicht.at>
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Hello Sai,

ActionScript3 does not support generics. You will not be able to
create new "well-performing" basic types like Array. There are many 
approaches
around like as3commons[1], as3-collections[2], addicted2flash [3] or 
Maashaack [4] but the
performance is not really good.

I once developed a generic Linked List with performance in mind but its 
rather difficult to really use [1]

Things like Omars VectorList might be useful but I think that is 
different from what you are talking about - right?

yours
Martin.

[1] 
http://code.google.com/p/as3-commons/source/browse/trunk#trunk%2Fas3-commons-collections%2Fsrc%2Fmain%2Factionscript%2Forg%2Fas3commons%2Fcollections
[2] http://code.google.com/p/as3-collections/
[4]http://code.google.com/p/maashaack/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2FAS3%2Fsrc%2Fsystem%2Fdata
[3] 
http://code.google.com/p/addicted2flash/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fsrc%2Fcom%2Faddicted2flash%2Futil
[4] http://nanosome.org/util/latest/index.html#nanosome/util/list/List.html

On 25/02/2012 01:14, sai pabbathi wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I've been thinking about creating my own version of collections and
> Generics for a while now. I'm a java guy and I crave to have Collections on
> the client side. Having the collections and generics would not hurt, it
> would actually reduce the coding errors, and development time as most of
> the time we will be working around the data in any type of application.
> Some times I have to run the application to know the type of data that is
> in the ArrayCollection, even though flex provides 'Vector' as way to
> introduce generics into flex, it is not as powerful as the ArrayCollection,
> and not many are aware of its existence.
>
> Also having a good set of collections like Map, Set, List, Queues would
> help develop more robust client side applications.
>
> P:S: I'm unaware if adobe has already planned to roll out collections in
> the near future. Its just an Idea!
>