Re: Flex adopting haXe ?

2012-02-22 Thread Nicolas Cannasse
Le 22/02/2012 19:31, Martin Heidegger a écrit : Thanks for explaining that, Gordon. I guess everybody wonders why the compiler doesn't make use of those opcodes in the the other syntax. yours Martin. For the record, haXe compiler does. It's 4 times faster and uses less bytes. There are actual

Re: Would anyone care if we ditched support for semicolons being optional?

2012-02-22 Thread Nicolas Cannasse
Le 22/02/2012 19:20, Greg Reddin a écrit : On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:53 AM, David Arno wrote: If Dimitri's great efforts to try and get us early access to the Falcon compiler fail and we instead carry on with trying to develop our Goshawk compiler, I'd like to make a change to the AS3 language

Re: Flex adopting haXe ?

2012-02-22 Thread Nicolas Cannasse
Le 22/02/2012 17:56, Martin Heidegger a écrit : in haXe case, "this" is always the object in which the local function function has been declared, not the one on which the event listener is added. Did you see my example code? I am not sure how to name that particular difference. In ActionScrip

Re: Flex adopting haXe ?

2012-02-22 Thread Nicolas Cannasse
Le 22/02/2012 15:33, ganaraj p r a écrit : Thanks Nicolas, I was the one who mentioned you in a post and wanted your inputs on "How we could go about porting Flex to Haxe?".. I assumed that since you built Haxe ( duh! ) and that since Haxe is inspired by AS3, you would be able to provide some de

Re: Would anyone care if we ditched support for semicolons being optional?

2012-02-22 Thread Nicolas Cannasse
Le 22/02/2012 13:53, David Arno a écrit : As I suspect there are many here not following the [gosh] threads, I'm repeating a question from yesterday to a wider audience. Apologies in advance if you do read those threads and just didn't care enough to comment yesterday ;) If Dimitri's great effor

Re: Flex adopting haXe ?

2012-02-22 Thread Nicolas Cannasse
Le 22/02/2012 13:09, Carlos Rovira a écrit : [...] Now haXe has evolved great and Apache Flex could go the haXe way to be a real open source framework that does not depend only in Adobe's runtime. The problems behind : This way is hard, but feasible, and take into account that principal actors u

Re: Flex adopting haXe ?

2012-02-22 Thread Nicolas Cannasse
Le 22/02/2012 15:30, Martin Heidegger a écrit : The point of the functions-files is that you don't create huge code dependencies: Say you create a dependency to StringTools.endsWith() then the compiler better compiles all functions of StringTools into the swf so it can be loaded properly. In AS3:

Re: Flex adopting haXe ?

2012-02-22 Thread Nicolas Cannasse
Le 22/02/2012 12:35, Martin Heidegger a écrit : However I used ActionScript a lot in the past years and found ways to work with it that are unlike the work with haXe because when I recently tried out haXe again I was bothered by a few language features that I use heavily in ActionScript and have

Re: Flex adopting haXe ?

2012-02-22 Thread Nicolas Cannasse
Le 22/02/2012 11:56, Rui Silva a écrit : From: "Nicolas Cannasse" I can't decide for you, but I can at least answer the questions you might have. Best, Nicolas Thanks for the clarification Nicolas. I've been wanting to try out HaXe for a long time. Maybe now is the momen

Flex adopting haXe ?

2012-02-22 Thread Nicolas Cannasse
Hi, I was asked to comment on the possibility of the Apache Flex Community to port Flex to haXe, and use it has its main technology. Sorry for the long mail ;) I would say that there actually two choices to make there : one from a technical point of view, and one from a political point of vi