Comment Re:Actionscript Scoping (Score 1) 729
I ran into one really bizarre bug in ActionScript several years ago. I can't remember all the details exactly, but I think that if you try to redeclare a variable as a different type in the same function, the redeclaration is ignored and the type stays the same.
Integer a;
... bunch of code ...
String b;
b = "foo";
That code would give an error about assigning a string to an integer variable. Of all possible ways to handle redeclaring a variable, ActionScript picked the worst.
Integer a;
String b;
b = "foo";
That code would give an error about assigning a string to an integer variable. Of all possible ways to handle redeclaring a variable, ActionScript picked the worst.
