Archive for June, 2009

The Truth of Strings

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What strings are true? The answer may surprise you.

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Fancy Or

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The lowly || operator in the hands of AS3 and JavaScript is not so lowly. Here’s a quick time saver.

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Triple Equals

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Anyone coming from a language like C that doesn’t have a === operator seems shocked when they encounter such a ludicrous operator. For them, and for anyone being a bit careless, simple usage of === can really bite you.

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Missing Array Elements

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As a sane programmer, you probably wouldn’t ever think to do this. But It’s perfectly legal to do so.

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ActionScript 3 Loops

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The for-each and for-in loops in JavaScript and AS3 are very convenient ways to avoid the repetition of C-style for loops. Let’s take a look at them all, what they’re good for and bad for, and see if we can find any gotchas.

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