>I believe Gordon Smith said in one of the email threads that the new compiler >is no longer generating ActionScript 3 from the MXML files but converting >directly to bytecode. I would imagine this is the preferred >approach, no? I >haven't done any compiler dev myself, yet... but I'm eager to learn.
IMO, no. I think, although the structure was wrong, the approach taken in the Flex 3.x timeline where MXML was nothing but a set of descriptors was much better. I like to think of MXML as declarative configuration for my project's views. Mike
