Actionscript 3 - Type.<T> syntax

Question

Hi all!

Is it possible to use the Type.<T> syntax with user defined classes? For example, let's say I want to create a List class, but I want the user to use it like this:

var myList:List.<String> = new List.<String>;

or is this syntax exclusively evailable to the Vector class only?

Thanks!

Answer 1

At the moment it can only be used by the Vector class. Any other attempted use of the syntax will throw a compiler error.

Answer 2

have a look at haXe ... you can compile haXe to swfs as well, and unlike AS3, it supports generics ...

edit: haXe can target flash10 ... unlike ActionScript 3, haXe even can use alchemy opcodes: http://haxe.org/api/flash9/memory ... plus the generated bytecode is faster ... actually haXe is a much better tool to leverage the potentials of the AVM2