I posted a while ago that I was working on the next-generation Flash/Flex compiler at Adobe. After taking some time off, traveled a lot and moving half-way across the globe from San Francisco, I’ve started working again. And then I remembered I had a blog! Perhaps the most exciting piece to report is that Code Model: [...]
So after a three week vacation, I think I’m finally ready to dive into a few other fun pieces of ActionScript. And really, what better place to start than local variable hoisting. In Java and C++, local variables are scoped per block, starting at the beginning of a function. Each set of curly braces corresponds [...]