I personally don't think that this should be anything that the user has to make an conscious effort to enable (like choosing beads, which is our main tangible expression of PAYG / 'code as you go'). The reason I think this is simply because it is api emulation of native as3 language-level types as opposed to 'framework' classes (XML and Lanuage are only in our 'framework' to support native as3 emulation, and should not be 'beady' IMO).
However if people are not using XML in their code anywhere, and it is not present in the codebase, then there should of course be very little overhead for supporting it, because it won't be needed in the app. Language.as currently should be 'export' suppressed, so that if the array sorton code is never used it should be dead-code-eliminated as well, for example. So the thing in my mind that makes sense is if the first use of XML anywhere runs static code that 'installs' a 'getValue' plugin into Language that covers XML and XMLlist cases for the Array sortOn support (and perhaps for other uses, if it was helpful to use it elsewhere). This general approach should work I think because XML already has a static dependency on Language.as, but it might need a bit of compiler tweaking as well. I have been meaning to look more at supporting static initialization blocks in general, which will no doubt be a bit trickier than I'd like. I am happy to look into it, but it likely won't be something I can do in the next couple of weeks. Probably in the short term, a Language.as monkeypatch could suffice, Yishay. perhaps using whatever solution Edward has already proposed. My 2 cents Greg On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 2:21 AM Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Edward did some work to fix that which I objected to on PAYG grounds. > https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/pull/1150 < > https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/pull/1150> > > I was supposed to make an alternate suggestion, but forgot to follow up. > > > On Jun 13, 2022, at 1:55 PM, Yishay Weiss <yishayj...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Array.sortOn() is failing for me for XML objects. I think the reason is > that Language.as is not aware of XML objects. I have opened an issue with a > test case [1]. Any ideas on how to resolve this? > > > > Thanks, > > Yishay > > > > [1] Array - sortOn fails for XML data · Issue #1203 · apache/royale-asjs > (github.com)<https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/issues/1203> > > > > > > > >
