Re: [jira] [Updated] (FLEX-51) Please check support for ExactValue initializer

[Alex Harui]

On 4/24/12 10:47 AM, "Omar Gonzalez" <omarg.develo...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 
>> Optimizing for read-once variable expressions just sounds dangerous to me.
>> I would not want to bake that into the compiler and invite people into a
>> trap.
>>
> 
> All I'm saying is that if we're going to turn it down it should be on
> technical merit, or lack thereof, as opposed to whether it invites
> something bad, because there's lots of bad things that can be done and if
> we use that as criteria for changes then we'll never make any changes.
I think "technical merit" includes whether a feature has consistent
behavior.  I consider the current binding system to be consistent.  You can
mis-use it, but for any given expression, it will evaluate correctly.  This
proposal, if it includes expressions with variables, introduces timing
dependencies.  I think that is a technical flaw.

-- 
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui