The other thing is that not everyone is an advanced coder. Steven did say something to the effect of when writing classes, but automatic declaration is a backward-compatible feature that allows beginners to code in the timeline the same way they used to.
In AS3, whether you use your own document class or not, the Main Timeline is essentially a class. Therefore, the instances must be declared. That means that every user, beginner or not, accustomed to best practices or not, would suddenly have to adjust to yet another change in fundamental coding, even with timeline-only code. I agree and very strongly recommend declaring all your instances in classes--and it wouldn't do any harm to adopt that practice in timeline coding--but that's the reasoning behind the option. So that at least that element of timeline coding would not be broken/radically altered for every user. Rich http://www.LearningActionScript3.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
