I can spare my free time on this, Possibly not on Apache contributor
level because I am total noob when comes to it. I don't even managed to
set up my environment for flexSDK ;) But this is because I've got AIR
corrupted and some windows x86 redistributable corupted libs blabla, the
only reasonable solution is to go for fresh Windows installation. Hell
no...!! ;)
I am not JS guru, but would like to get involved and do my best even as
outsider.
I was digging into JS for past year just to investigate the
possibilities. Mostly from performance point of view and mobile development.
In regards to instanceof:
Here is something that haxe is using
js.Boot.__instanceof = function(o,cl) {
try {
if(o instanceof cl) {
if(cl == Array) return o.__enum__ == null;
return true;
}
if(js.Boot.__interfLoop(o.__class__,cl)) return true;
} catch( e ) {
if(cl == null) return false;
}
switch(cl) {
case Int:
return Math.ceil(o%2147483648.0) === o;
case Float:
return typeof(o) == "number";
case Bool:
return o === true || o === false;
case String:
return typeof(o) == "string";
case Dynamic:
return true;
default:
if(o == null) return false;
if(cl == Class && o.__name__ != null) return true; else null;
if(cl == Enum && o.__ename__ != null) return true; else null;
return o.__enum__ == cl;
}
}
having something like that implemented
'is' is as easy as:
Std["is"] = function(v,t) {
return js.Boot.__instanceof(v,t);
}
But obviously, it needs to live within rest of the sugar :).
Are you able to provide the list of stuff/fields that compiler is
expecting to meet on the other side?
Dan
On 11/28/2012 9:42 PM, Alex Harui wrote:
On 11/28/12 1:35 PM, "Daniel Wasilewski" <devudes...@gmail.com> wrote:
So, please tell me why not to go the classic route as a very little overhaul
for the application that can be built on top of AS3/Flex?
This is bloody 3 classes with 4 methods in it, and we are not talking here
about few % but tens.
It can only grow exponentially to the scale of your project.
I don't know enough to have an reason not to go the classic route. But
someone else will have to step up to do the work.
That said, because we are cross compiling AS, does the classic route support
as many features of AS, especially the reflection-oriented features? We
want to try to compile business logic untouched and it might be using "is",
"in", "instanceof", etc. Resig's blog seems to indicate that support for
instanceOf was important and required all of that code.
Dan
