// archives

C++

This tag is associated with 3 posts

Listen to me rant about ActionScript, part 3

By ⋅ January 26, 2009 ⋅ 11 comments

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 [...]

Listen to me rant about ActionScript, part 2

By ⋅ December 8, 2008 ⋅ 7 comments

So we all know people build some amazing things using ActionScript: it’s a flexible language that provides some syntactic sugar to make developer’s lives easier. That sugar, however, gives me, umm, toothaches, some of which I talked about already. So now, I’ll rant about some other idiosyncrasies of AS3 that make it an interesting language [...]

« Previous —