ActionScript 4 and 5 Wishlist

February 16th, 2008

A bit of discussion has developed from my previous article, Moock on ActionScript 4 about features that people would like to see in future versions of ActionScript. Obviously at the top of the list (mentioned by Dave) we have Threads. Does anyone have other things you want to see in the next versions of ActionScript?

14 comments on “ActionScript 4 and 5 Wishlist”

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I don’t want to be the only contributor to this list, but non-public class constructors would be nice as well.

Dave at February 16th, 2008 around 7:48 pm
02

I agree. As much as I know some people will disagree: I would also like to see abstract classes.

David Tucker at February 16th, 2008 around 7:49 pm
03

Typed Arrays..

Claus Wahlers at February 16th, 2008 around 8:12 pm
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@Claus - It appears that if that part of ECMAScript 4 makes it way into ActionScript 4 - you will get your wish.

David Tucker at February 16th, 2008 around 8:14 pm
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have a look at generics in C# and how C# handle nulls now in primitive datatypes.

barry.b at February 17th, 2008 around 4:41 am
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One of the things I miss the most from C++ is method and constructor overloading.

Nick Kwiatkowski at February 17th, 2008 around 7:01 am
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@Nick - It appears that if elements of ECMAScript 4 get adopted for ActionScript 4 we will have method overloading.

David Tucker at February 17th, 2008 around 7:25 am
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private constructors
operator overloading
typed arrays
proper XPath support!

Luke at February 17th, 2008 around 2:01 pm
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Enums

Phil Douglas at February 17th, 2008 around 3:30 pm
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Threading

Elango at February 23rd, 2008 around 3:54 am
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Built in support for manipulating audio at the byte/sample level

Alan Queen at February 23rd, 2008 around 8:50 am
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yeah i second that elango, the sound api needs some work… looks like we gonna get a byte datatype though… (could be a start?)

ryan at March 4th, 2008 around 9:15 am
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well,let me think, besides some others’ requirements, plus some more :
1.eval function return. it’s still very usefull.
2.static statement block.
3.size much more smaller.
4.performance improve, not only the graphic, also get data from server side.
5.destruction funtion.
6.gc..

cimmicola at May 16th, 2008 around 2:39 am
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nullable types for primitive datatypes, for representing null value in database, like int? construct in C#.

hackee at July 22nd, 2008 around 7:31 am