As4?

Will there be an AS4 / AS 3.1 anytime soon? I really do not want to buy CS5 if a CS6 is going to come out in like a year or two and have a new AS version and then feel stupid for upgrading at a poor time.

[Halosheep]

I seriously doubt there will be an AS4 in the near future, and if if there is an AS3.1, it wont be too different to current AS3

[GustTheASGuy]

In short, there was a proposal being worked on, but it was canceled. haXe is already long better than the proposal, and it's safe to say it's better than AS ever could be.

[Innermike]

At 5/15/10 07:45 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: In short, there was a proposal being worked on, but it was canceled. haXe is already long better than the proposal, and it's safe to say it's better than AS ever could be.

Agreed , haXe also has much better (and stricter) data typing , its also multi purpose and comes with many more ways to declare variables and everything is much more logical in haXe, combine it with notepad++ or flashDevelop and you'll never need AS4 , i doubt adobe could really make an update worth the money what with all their gimmicking craze

[CaptainPoncho]

I would kill for AS4 with function overloading, operator overloading, and pure virtual classes.

[GustTheASGuy]

At 5/15/10 08:37 PM, CaptainPoncho wrote: I would kill for AS4 with function overloading, operator overloading, and pure virtual classes.

AS can't have overloading. It doesn't exactly have any sugar either. And don't you mean interfaces?

[CaptainPoncho]

At 5/15/10 08:43 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: AS can't have overloading. It doesn't exactly have any sugar either. And don't you mean interfaces?

Why can't AS have overloading? I actually haven't looked into interfaces at all, so if those take the place of C++'s virtual functions, I'll take a look.

[CaptainPoncho]

Oh yeah, I forgot inline functions. That too would be nice in AS4.

[LDAF]

Oh man, I hope there isn't an AS4 anytime soon. I just started studying AS3, and besides, I don't see any reason for a new version anyway. Don't fix what's not broken...

[GustTheASGuy]

Overloading isn't compatible with dynamic resolution of calls and first-class functions without delegates. AS instead has default arguments which covers cases where overloading would actually be useful.

Everything else you could reasonably want is given by haXe.

[DevThomas]

Why should they bother to make another language? AS3 seems perfect. I myself am not a fan of AS3 but I know you can do a lot of stuff in it, possibly more than AS2.

[Innermike]

At 5/16/10 01:07 AM, Thomast555 wrote: possibly more than AS2.

Not possibly , definitely , several times more, several times better.

[Torrunt]

At 5/15/10 08:54 PM, LDAF wrote: Don't fix what's not broken...

I HATE it when people say that about anything, that's a horrible attitude.