Hello Sai,
ActionScript3 does not support generics. You will not be able to
create new "well-performing" basic types like Array. There are many
approaches
around like as3commons[1], as3-collections[2], addicted2flash [3] or
Maashaack [4] but the
performance is not really good.
I once developed a generic Linked List with performance in mind but its
rather difficult to really use [1]
Things like Omars VectorList might be useful but I think that is
different from what you are talking about - right?
yours
Martin.
[1]
http://code.google.com/p/as3-commons/source/browse/trunk#trunk%2Fas3-commons-collections%2Fsrc%2Fmain%2Factionscript%2Forg%2Fas3commons%2Fcollections
[2] http://code.google.com/p/as3-collections/
[4]http://code.google.com/p/maashaack/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2FAS3%2Fsrc%2Fsystem%2Fdata
[3]
http://code.google.com/p/addicted2flash/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fsrc%2Fcom%2Faddicted2flash%2Futil
[4] http://nanosome.org/util/latest/index.html#nanosome/util/list/List.html
On 25/02/2012 01:14, sai pabbathi wrote:
Hello All,
I've been thinking about creating my own version of collections and
Generics for a while now. I'm a java guy and I crave to have Collections on
the client side. Having the collections and generics would not hurt, it
would actually reduce the coding errors, and development time as most of
the time we will be working around the data in any type of application.
Some times I have to run the application to know the type of data that is
in the ArrayCollection, even though flex provides 'Vector' as way to
introduce generics into flex, it is not as powerful as the ArrayCollection,
and not many are aware of its existence.
Also having a good set of collections like Map, Set, List, Queues would
help develop more robust client side applications.
P:S: I'm unaware if adobe has already planned to roll out collections in
the near future. Its just an Idea!
