Comments on: Magic Strings vs Constants

By: Kenny Bunch

Kenny Bunch — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:40:15 +0000

Yea, I meant to title it that, but published befre noticing and didnt know if it would in effect make it a new post in aggregators.. I just changed it anyways to see.

By: Byron

Byron — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:34:40 +0000

Good reminder here. I usually think of this as a better way to do things but didn’t think about compile time vs runtime.

One thing – it should probably be Magic Strings vs Constants since you really are talking about constants which are general term. Also, in most languages “change” is still strictly typed – it’s a string.

By: Kenny Bunch

Kenny Bunch — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:00:51 +0000

Good example Jesse. That is one that people using components should recognize as a best practice I think.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:03:52 +0000

Yeah, I’ve been replacing attachMovie and contentPath with that:

popup = Window(PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, Window, true));
popup.contentPath = “SomeForm”;

instead becomes:

popup = Window(PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, Window, true));
popup.contentPath = SomeForm.symbolName;

Since in the UIComponet you define those variables, you can get syntax checking. I hope EventDispatcher most to this model in the future as does all the framework.