Want to get an idea of what ActionScript might look like in the future? The ECMAScript committee has released a handful of public resources surrounding ECMAScript 4. These resources give a general idea of where the language is headed.
Sho had touched on some of the new language features when discussing Brendan Eich's JavaScript 2 Slides. Now that some more information has been put out there I thought I'd mention it as well.
Because ActionScript is based on the ECMAScript standard, anything that happens in ECMAScript will almost certainly happen in ActionScript too. Not to mention, quite a few of the Adobe folks are on the ECMAScript committee...
Read more at http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/ (most of the good stuff is in the proposals section).
Tags: ActionScript, ActionScript 3, ECMAScript
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