Issue 28 - Various as3gen problems - haxe

[issuesbot]

[Google Issue #28 : https://code.google.com/p/haxe/issues/detail?id=28]
by makc.the...@gmail.com, at 28/12/2009, 08:02:20
What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. get sandy haxe trunk, generate as3

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect working as3 code. Various issues were reported on ML, none was
addressed.

http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/haxe/2009-November/031485.html
http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/haxe/2009-November/031492.html
http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/haxe/2009-November/031493.html
http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/haxe/2009-November/031494.html
http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/haxe/2009-November/031497.html

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.04, WinXP

Please provide any additional information below.

[issuesbot]

[comment from ncanna...@gmail.com, published at 03/01/2010, 12:28:06]
1 - fixed on SVN
2 - there is no Object in haXe, please show how it can be reproduced with haXe
3 - unlike haXe, it is not possible to declare variables as part of interfaces in AS3
4 - haXe is more smart than AS3 wrt return path detections. Add a "return null" in
haXe code, we will see if this can directly be addressed in AS3 code generator later.
5 - should be fixed on SVN (was same as (1))

[issuesbot]

[comment from makc.the...@gmail.com, published at 03/01/2010, 13:22:52]
2 - there is Dynamic; whatever it translates to in AS3 needs to be explicitly cast
to ByteArray.
3 - by "properties" I meant getter/setter pair.

[issuesbot]

[comment from ncanna...@gmail.com, published at 03/01/2010, 15:04:10]

• haXe should translate Dynamic to AS3 * , not to Object, so no manual cast should be
  required there
• I didn't know that getter/setter could be declared in interfaces, this has now been
  fixed in the AS3 source code generator

[issuesbot]

[comment from makc.the...@gmail.com, published at 03/01/2010, 16:11:47]
you're right about *, it was my mistake from mixing handmade AS3 with haXe output :(