Can you remind me what the "a" in coerce_a means?

- Gordon

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 2:43 PM
To: dev@flex.apache.org
Subject: [FALCON] using coerce_a

Gordon, Darrell (mostly)

My latest problem appears to be in assigning to a Dictionary.  For the 
following code:

var dict:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
Var i:int;
Dict["foo"] = (i == 0 ? new SomeClass() : new SomeOtherClass());

MXMLC generates a coerce_a after the constructProp for both SomeClass and 
SomeOtherClass.
For some reason, FlashPlayer doesn't care if the coerce_a is missing, but AIR 
seems to.

The question is, should a complex assignment statement like the above know 
about the destination type as the clauses of the ternary statement are being 
reduced?  And if so, how would we get that knowledge into the reducer.

Alternatively, is it safe to add a coerce_a before an assignment to a 
Dictionary?  If so, what would be the recommended way to determine the 
assignment is to a Dictionary?

Thanks,
-Alex

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