preprossessing meta data sounds great, especially for DI etc Parametric polymorophism would be pretty cool too, it would allow for much more generic abstractions...
On 11 January 2012 19:00, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > On 1/11/12 2:38 AM, "Dirk Eismann" <bort...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > I think I saw some JIRA issues in the Adobe JIRA some time ago where > > folks talked about how they enhanced the mxmlc / asc compilers to > > evaluate metadata at pre-compile time to emit code. The same could > > happen with custom language additions. > I'm definitely interested in a "pre-processor" phase. I just think it > would > be best if everything was describable in ActionScript as we know it today. > > For example, method overloading might be achievable by a pre-processor > phase. But I would do it in a way that resolves to decorated method names > on the class, not by clever bytecode manipulation. > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
