Comments on: Discussion: Collections in Actionscript 3? http://specialrelativity.org/blog/2007/08/12/discussion-collections-in-actionscript-3/ Michael Avila's blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:34:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: eric http://specialrelativity.org/blog/2007/08/12/discussion-collections-in-actionscript-3/#comment-63 eric Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:40:57 +0000 http://specialrelativity.org/blog/2007/08/12/discussion-collections-in-actionscript-3/#comment-63 Have you seen Polygonal Labs "AS3 Data Structures For Game Developers" ? http://lab.polygonal.de/ds/ Have you seen Polygonal Labs “AS3 Data Structures For Game Developers” ?
http://lab.polygonal.de/ds/

]]> By: Michael Avila http://specialrelativity.org/blog/2007/08/12/discussion-collections-in-actionscript-3/#comment-64 Michael Avila Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:54:56 +0000 http://specialrelativity.org/blog/2007/08/12/discussion-collections-in-actionscript-3/#comment-64 Eric- Yes I have, <a href='http://blog.generalrelativity.org' rel="nofollow">Drew</a> and I were talking about them not too long ago. These look solid, and I still have plans to play around with them a lot more. I will still be finishing mine since I had a goal, and a specific approach. Thanks for pointing it out! I was planning on including a reference to it in one of my overview posts, as it is a recent discovery for me... ;) Thanks again! Eric-

Yes I have, Drew and I were talking about them not too long ago. These look solid, and I still have plans to play around with them a lot more.

I will still be finishing mine since I had a goal, and a specific approach. Thanks for pointing it out! I was planning on including a reference to it in one of my overview posts, as it is a recent discovery for me… ;)

Thanks again!

]]> By: Denis http://specialrelativity.org/blog/2007/08/12/discussion-collections-in-actionscript-3/#comment-84 Denis Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:48:02 +0000 http://specialrelativity.org/blog/2007/08/12/discussion-collections-in-actionscript-3/#comment-84 Michael, I am equally amazed that decent solid collection libraries are not the norm. There also seam to be no stream libraries either. While I am an ActionScript newbie, I am am a 15 year Smalltalk vetaran and this sort of stuff is just standard kit. Just to give an idea of standard colleciton classes: Collections-Abstract Collection ArrayedCollection SequenceableCollection KeyedCollection Collections-Arrayed RunArray Array ByteArray LargeWordArray WeakArray WordArray DwordArray LargeArray IntegerArray SegmentedCollection Collections-Sequenceable OrderedCollection Interval SortedCollectionWithPolicy LinkedList SortedCollection Collections-Unordered Bag OrderedSet EphemeronDictionary Dictionary WeakDictionary Set IdentityDictionary IdentitySet May I humbly suggest, don't take your lead from the Java world where they are still getting their head around real OO and instead take your lead from the dynamic language crowd. In particular I would love to see someone do a collection library which does not use iterators and does them using closures/blocks like Smalltalk. Good luck with your library and feel free to discuss via (allobjects at optusnet dot com dot au) cheers Denis Michael,
I am equally amazed that decent solid collection libraries are not the norm. There also seam to be no stream libraries either. While I am an ActionScript newbie, I am am a 15 year Smalltalk vetaran and this sort of stuff is just standard kit. Just to give an idea of standard colleciton classes:

Collections-Abstract
Collection
ArrayedCollection
SequenceableCollection
KeyedCollection

Collections-Arrayed
RunArray
Array
ByteArray
LargeWordArray
WeakArray
WordArray
DwordArray
LargeArray
IntegerArray
SegmentedCollection

Collections-Sequenceable
OrderedCollection
Interval
SortedCollectionWithPolicy
LinkedList
SortedCollection

Collections-Unordered
Bag
OrderedSet
EphemeronDictionary
Dictionary
WeakDictionary
Set
IdentityDictionary
IdentitySet

May I humbly suggest, don’t take your lead from the Java world where they are still getting their head around real OO and instead take your lead from the dynamic language crowd. In particular I would love to see someone do a collection library which does not use iterators and does them using closures/blocks like Smalltalk.

Good luck with your library and feel free to discuss via (allobjects at optusnet dot com dot au)

cheers Denis

]]> By: Michael Avila http://specialrelativity.org/blog/2007/08/12/discussion-collections-in-actionscript-3/#comment-92 Michael Avila Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:42:20 +0000 http://specialrelativity.org/blog/2007/08/12/discussion-collections-in-actionscript-3/#comment-92 Denis - Thank you. I am looking into everything you mentioned. I will definitely take all of this into consideration, that is the beauty of still being early on in development :-) . Denis - Thank you. I am looking into everything you mentioned. I will definitely take all of this into consideration, that is the beauty of still being early on in development :-) .

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