[haXe] dynamic object instantiation

[Joshua Kifer]

Perhaps some justification then.  I'm working on a web framework that  
needs to be able to discover assets at runtime, in this case,  
javascript controller classes.  I decided to go with haxe because it  
takes care of class inheritance nicely, as well as the syntax  
checking.  I also decided to port my flash component over, so now can  
compile the whole deal from a single script.  Love the project!

Thanks for the tip.

On Apr 28, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:

>> I'm new to this list, and am excited to see what kind of activity is
>> happening in the Haxe community.  I've got a question for yall.
>>
>> A technique I'm used  to using in Javascript is to get a class
>> reference through eval then instantiating it.  As I do not yet
>> understand the typing very well in Haxe yet, I'd like to know the
>> best way to do this.  Here's how I would do it in javascript.
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> You should use the "Reflect" class, and in particular the
> "createInstance" method :
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> var obj = Reflect.createInstance(js.Lib.eval("MyClass"),[arg1,arg2]);
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> Please note that it's not haXe philosophy to instanciate classes this
> way, since you loose all the typing when using Reflect or "eval".
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> Nicolas
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