[mtasc] MTASC's non-MMC features

[Martin Wood]

>>- Typed Arrays that are checked at compile-time would
>>obviously improve code reliability. How to accomplish
>>this syntactically is a matter of discussion.
> 
> 
> I would love this but changing real syntax takes your code to the
> point of no return. I would love to come up with a way to have array
> elements type checked but that would not introduce new keywords so
> that MTASC could compile in a strict way and MMC would just ignore it.

metadata / annotations.

There is already support for metadata in MMC, i havent checked to see if 
its in MTASC.

If there is then i think some level of type-safe array support could be 
added to hamtasc.

of course like you say, starting to add features that rely on a personal 
fork of mtasc isnt good for distribution, but something like this is 
only a compile time safety feature and would happily compile in MMC as 
well. :)

heres the docs about metadata

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00003096.html

thanks,

Martin