Comments on: Symbol Naming Strategy for Flash https://jessewarden.com/2006/08/symbol-naming-strategy-for-flash.html Software | Fitness | Gaming Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:32:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Derek Vadneau https://jessewarden.com/2006/08/symbol-naming-strategy-for-flash.html/comment-page-1#comment-3717 Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:32:34 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=1046#comment-3717 ‘Voodoo, but it works. All the symbolName really is a String that tells attachMovie what MovieClip to attach; it doesn’t care if it’s an anonymous function or a true class.’
Isn’t it safe to say there are no ‘true classes’ in AS1/AS2? A ‘class’ in a prototype language really IS just a function. In AS1 and JavaScript you build a ‘class’ by creating a function and adding prototype methods if you want, or just add properties to the function as static properties.

‘This is pointless in ActionScript 3 since everything is a class, and there are no symbol names anymore. You’ll have to basically write a parent class that allows multiple child classes to be drawn into it via Composition.’
AS3, booyah!

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