Comments on: procedural coding in AS3

By: Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:18:53 +0000

Just getting into as3 now – so far finding it quite, er… “flexible”.

OOP – a formal method for the mandatory inheritance of bugs.
I’ve spent far more of my working life going cock-eyed trawling through and refactoring badly designed and/or just plain wrong class-hierarchies, than debugging procedural code.

By: Don Lapre James

Don Lapre James — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:14:12 +0000

I agree that as3 ahouldn’t be pushed aside so quickly. it may take a few to get used to but it more than lives up to the change. Anyway, everyone should live outside the box every now and again, you might actually learn something..
Jim
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By: Richard Canfield

Richard Canfield — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:07:05 +0000

The beautiful design effect reminds me of the german graffiti artist Daim.

http://www.daimgallery.com

Coincidence?

By: oh please so

oh please so — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:13:20 +0000

for those of us poor bastards that have been pounding keys in oop for years suddenly as3 makes everyone a oop finatic — there is a time and a place — some kid get the idea of what a class is then wants to use it for everything — flex is totally case in point — can anyone say overdeveloped — the sdk has promise — as3 is opening a door for massively overdeveloped code

By: Bjorn Schultheiss

Bjorn Schultheiss — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 04:01:16 +0000

Yeah but what happens when you want to reuse that animation in say a RIA that you’re building. Do you Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V till your fingers get sore or would you prefer to instantiate a class out of your animation library?

By: John Giotta

John Giotta — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:27:55 +0000

OOP is for final and robust development; its the way to go.

However, you’re right to say OOP is overkill for exploratory coding.

By: Julien Fondère

Julien Fondère — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:00:53 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. I’m glad you said it.
OOP is an incredible tool, but it doesn’t make you a better developer nor does it make your project any better. People need to stop thinking everything should be OOP… Flash is not Java!

By: Intoxo Pox

Intoxo Pox — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:31:34 +0000

Paul. I confess to similar stubborn habits with respect to OOP.
It’s funny… I was just toying around with your now ancient pac-man source about a month ago or so after finding my stab at pac-man from a good while back. I also dug your 3d flower generator thing. The internet is offly odd that way. Nice to finally meet you (sort of).

By: Intoxo Pox

Intoxo Pox — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:23:24 +0000

In case anyone reading this missed aral’s post, he’s informed me that a more apt name in this case may be ‘spiking’… eXtreme Programming coinage. Always neat to drop another coin in me lexicon. Thanks aral.

Check his post out here.
http://aralbalkan.com/662

By: Paul Neave

Paul Neave — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:24:26 +0000

I totally agree. I was brought up on a diet of procedural programming and even to this day find it hard to kick the habit and go entirely OOP loopy. Thankfully the Flash 9 preview release allows timeline code with AS3 so you can still use dirty hackery procedural code but get the AS3 speed boost as well.