Comments on: How will ECMAScript “Harmony” affect ActionScript 3?

By: Discover ECMAScript 4: The Future of ActionScript - Josh Talks Flash

Discover ECMAScript 4: The Future of ActionScript - Josh Talks Flash — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:47:24 +0000

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By: Some Controversy over ECMAScript 4 - Josh Talks Flash

Some Controversy over ECMAScript 4 - Josh Talks Flash — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:21:56 +0000

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By: NateJC.com - Flash & ActionScript 3 info, source, & experiments » Blog Archive » Should Adobe follow the new ECMAScript 3.1 standard?

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:19:20 +0000

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By: Macaca

Macaca — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:05:34 +0000

Adobe cant just scrap parts of the language.. removing packages and namespaces? I cant even remember it workend before.

Also i second Erik Wilder’s comment: AS doesnt need to strictly follow the standard: having your own added features (and being succesfull with it) is fine and may even improve the overall standard.

By: polyGeek.com » Blog Archive » ECMA4 is dead. Long live Actionscript!

polyGeek.com » Blog Archive » ECMA4 is dead. Long live Actionscript! — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:28 +0000

[...] now you’ve heard the news that ECMA 4.0 has died and been replaced by ECMA 3.1. A lot of people think it’s another power move by Microsoft and I certainly wouldn’t put it [...]

By: Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer » Blog Archive » What ECMAScript “Harmony” Means for Flash Developers

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:54:12 +0000

[...] working on ECMAScript 4 and instead focus on ECMAScript 3.1. And our developer community is rightly wondering what this means. In a couple of words, not [...]

By: barry.b

barry.b — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:58:18 +0000

“Why not ECMA-334? (c#, for friends)”

actually, apart from the incessant and annoying crowing of MS people like MossyBarnes … that’s an interesting idea …

I mean, it’s only a standard for a while until the web evolves a bit further and we need to update again …

By: Erick Wilder

Erick Wilder — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:36:53 +0000

I think that Adobe doesn’t need to change AS3. My conception is that AS is “based” on the standard and it is not “pure ECMAScript”, specific features on the language are completely acceptable.

By: ECMAScrip 4 - Goodbye… | Dev by MX

ECMAScrip 4 - Goodbye… | Dev by MX — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:10:31 +0000

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By: Simeon

Simeon — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:44:02 +0000

This is interesting and disturbing at the same time. As I become more competent in other dynamic languages, I often regret the strict typing facade that was put in place in AS3. Packages and Namespaces are not a requirement for an OO language that has more to do with how the compiler finds things. Namespaces not being in the spec doesn’t mean they wont exist, just that you wont be able to create your own. I feel that packages and namespaces were more about making the runtime faster than any other active decision. And i don’t see adobe going back on that for a minute.

It seemed to me that i heard moving forward Adobe was already looking at trying to reintroduce some of the dynamic nature of as2, and as such we may very well see an as4 that is ES4 compliant. But I would not expect any changes to as3 for a while.