Re: [Ming-dev] AS2 initial patch

['strk' <st...@ke...>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 06:26:23PM +0100, Tim Knip wrote:
> >I noticed your're trying to add special handlin for 'this', but
> >I'm not sure you should. I think a 'this' will be a 'this' string
> >in the SWF and interpretation will be left to player. 
> >Or, am I missing something ?
> 
> No, guess you're not missing something...
> I'll make 'this' a simple string ok?
>
> My handling of 'this' is due to new functionality introduced by
> DEFINEFUNCTION2:
> Within DEFINEFUNCTION2 one can specify that 'this' uses a register.
> Consequently 'this' can be called in function body using: 
> PUSH(r:1)
> GETVARIABLE ...

Oh, I see. Well. it's nice to have it as a register then :)
But..  how is it specified ? Can AS programmer instruct compiler
in a special way, or has it to be considered an optimization process ?

--strk;