Top 6 AS3 features you miss when switching back to AS2
I have been doing ActionScript 3 projects for quite a while, but every now and then I (as well as many others in the trade) have to switch back to AS2 or even AS1 – the line between them is quite blurry really in retrospective. When doing AS3 projects, there are many features that really come in handy, but it is only when you don’t have them available, that you really find out which are the true improvements, that you cannot live without, and which are just nice little tweaks, that make your everyday scripting easier.
The latter category includes e.g. the for-each-in construct, different number types, class introspection or built-in class look-up by string, but these are my top 6 AS3 features, that I find myself constantly missing when fixing or improving scripts in older versions of ActionScript:
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