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Re: Array Ordering in ActionScript 3

Ben Garney — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:17:18 -0000

I filed a bug about this for the Tamarin VM team: https://bugzilla.mozilla.or...

Re: Array Ordering in ActionScript 3

Ben Garney — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:34:22 -0000

In this case, I'm using a serialization system to fill the array, and it's easier to make (or borrow) an Array-compatible class that preserves the order than it is to change the serialization system.

In a more general context, PHP lets you have ordered associative arrays, and it's quite useful - you often store results from a database indexed by primary key and ordered by the order your SQL query returned them, for instance. Maybe having a built-in way to do that in Flash would be helpful (even if the default Array doesn't).

I wish they would document what WILL be in order and what won't, though. That's part of what cost me two days to fix this problem.

Re: Array Ordering in ActionScript 3

Rob — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:28:36 -0000

Interesting observation about the atom ordering...but if a specific order is important to your code, why not push/unshift your transitions into a second (tightly-packed) array as they're initialized, then iterate over that one? Or maybe drop a marker variable onto your ITransition type and have the Transitions work as a linked list?