On 25/02/2012 03:11, Gordon Smith wrote:
hopefully generics will be supported by the Falcon compiler.
Unfortunately, they won't be, at least not in the first release. We're just
working on compiling the existing language faster and in less memory.
As discussed in the recent Flash Runtime whitepaper, Adobe plans to evolve the
language, but primarily to help with the company's new gaming and video
initiative. Whether generics are part of that future hasn't been decided yet.
Also, whether Adobe will continue to contribute to Apache future compiler
changes to support new language features seems unclear at the moment. I haven't
seen anybody write anything about that, and it probably hasn't gotten a lot of
thought yet.
Gordon Smith, Falcon team, Adobe
Hello Gordon,
thanks for the information! If adobe really stays to its plans [1] with
releasing a ActionScript specification then the Apache community can
just improve the compiler on its own. Theoretically speaking it would be
possible to implement generics with mxmlc but I guess waiting for Falcon
makes more sense. If adobe wants to profit of the community efforts to
improve Falcon then I suggest to not work on a separate branch.
yours
Martin.
[1] http://blogs.adobe.com/avikchaudhuri/2011/01/19/setting-the-context
<http://blogs.adobe.com/avikchaudhuri/2011/01/19/setting-the-context/>
