Re: [flexcoders] Looking for what this[iscalled]

2008-12-01 Thread Dave Kong
If you define lung as a public field of the class Whale, then it is no longer a dynamic property, it is declared with a strong type. I don't believe those objects created at runtime via abc.xyz or abc[xyz] has any type associated with them, assuming xyz is not already declared as a field of abc.

RE: [flexcoders] Looking for what this[iscalled]

2008-12-01 Thread Gordon Smith
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Looking for what this[iscalled] If you define lung as a public field of the class Whale, then it is no longer a dynamic property, it is declared with a strong type. I don't believe those objects created at runtime via abc.xyz or abc[xyz] has any type associated with them

Re: [flexcoders] Looking for what this[iscalled]

2008-11-30 Thread Dave Kong
Isn't height the dynamic property of another dynamic property this[something] (which is equivalent to this.something)? the fact that you use [] syntax to access the property this.something is just a syntactical shorthand and sometimes a workaround: you can't define this.return (since return is a

Re: [flexcoders] Looking for what this[iscalled]

2008-11-30 Thread gabriel montagné
Hi. On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Dave Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't height the dynamic property of another dynamic property this[something] (which is equivalent to this.something)? I wouldn't exactly say it like that. Dynamically accessing a property of an object using the []

Re: [flexcoders] Looking for what this[iscalled]

2008-11-28 Thread Jake Churchill
I call it array notation but I'm not sure if that's technically correct Nate Pearson wrote: What's it called when I call something by using a string? Like when I do this[someObject].height = 10 someObject is a string. Thanks! -Nate

Re: [flexcoders] Looking for what this[iscalled]

2008-11-28 Thread Fotis Chatzinikos
its the index of an associative array On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Jake Churchill [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I call it array notation but I'm not sure if that's technically correct Nate Pearson wrote: What's it called when I call something by using a string? Like when I do

Re: [flexcoders] Looking for what this[iscalled]

2008-11-28 Thread ibnu saud
its an String Array the notation itself describes its an array []. On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Jake Churchill [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I call it array notation but I'm not sure if that's technically correct Nate Pearson wrote: What's it called when I call something by using a

[flexcoders] Looking for what this[iscalled]

2008-11-27 Thread Nate Pearson
What's it called when I call something by using a string? Like when I do this[someObject].height = 10 someObject is a string. Thanks! -Nate