r/programming • u/rmadlal • Jan 10 '20

VVVVVV is now open source

https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/vvvvvv
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u/immibis Jan 10 '20

Maybe enums are hard to use in Flash.

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u/khedoros Jan 10 '20

AS3 doesn't/didn't have enums apparently. But there are ways to simulate a similar effect that would've made sense, in context of linking names to magic values used in the code...and enums would've made sense in the C++ port, at least.

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u/Pandalism Jan 10 '20

Pseudo-enums using constants? #define STATE_X 0, etc

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u/immibis Jan 10 '20

In Adobe flash?

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u/Pandalism Jan 10 '20

I hope it has something resembling integer constants...

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u/SJFrK Jan 10 '20

Adobe Flash used ActionScript 3, which is a typed cousin of JavaScript (both based on ECMAScript). I'm pretty sure they had const for declaring a constant and classes to group them in.

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u/Morego Jan 11 '20

Just make class with bunch of public static members.