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ActionScript, Design Patterns, Flex
Feb 3, 2010
Dan Schultz
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Making ActionScript Look Beautiful: Increasing Readability and Loosing Verboseness

After playing around with languages such as Ruby and Groovy, I’ve been yearning to loose a lot of the verboseness of ActionScript. I feel that many languages tend to be overly expressive, and hide the concepts of what your code is actually doing.

Lets take a simple example of a snippet of code that represents, Is tomorrow after today?

function isTomorrowAfterToday():Boolean
{
    var now:Date = new Date();
    var today:Date = new Date(now.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0));
    var tomorrow:Date = new Date(now.setDate(now.date + 1));
    return tomorrow.getTime() > today.getTime();
}

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  • I'm the Lead Software Architect at Mixbook. A rapidly growing online photobooking and scrapbooking company.
  • I built Cayri, an online monitor for flight simulator networks.
  • I enjoy learning guitar, astronomy, beer, music, programming, and driving with no apparent destination.
  • I live in San Jose, CA.

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