Comments on: Compiled vs interpreted languages and why I sometimes wish Actionscript was interpreted

By: arpit

arpit — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:06:58 +0000

@Don,
Yeah I was recently made aware of “with” again, didnt realize that it was still around. For some reason I found it ugly before, mostly because to make it readable it still required a newline. I like the period at the end of an instruction but with may be the way to go, and wont really require any work at the framework end

By: Don-Duong Quach

Don-Duong Quach — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:17:47 +0000

I take it back the * type wouldn’t make a difference. What about using the “with” keyword in place of chaining?

with(myButton) setSize(200,200),setVisible(true),setLabel(”print”),setIcon(printer_png_instance);

By: Don-Duong Quach

Don-Duong Quach — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:52:32 +0000

Instead of returning Object could you return * and avoid the performance hit? How bad is the performance hit anyway?

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By: Andy Li

Andy Li — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:30:12 +0000

We have as3Query actually. But I haven’t tried it yet, so I don’t know its performance.

http://tech.nitoyon.com/blog/2008/01/as3query_alpha.html