Finally, access to “super” getters and setters

While looking through the Flex 2.0 help files, I discovered a great little section on inheritance. Near the bottom, I found a section that covers overriding getters and setters. It included the following code:

package
{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    public class OverrideExample extends MovieClip
    {
        public function OverrideExample()
        {
            trace(currentLabel)
        }

        override public function get currentLabel():String
        {
            var str:String = "Override: ";
            str += super.currentLabel;
            return str;
        }
    }
}

You’ll notice that the currentLabel getter calls super.currentLabel. That never worked in AS2. It makes me happy.