AS3 provide several way to handle something like java Map, but what’s the difference with Dictionary, Object and dynamic?
AS3 provide several way to handle something like java Map, but what’s the difference
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AS3 provide several way to handle something like java Map, but what’s the difference with Dictionary, Object and dynamic?
An Object can be used as a map, where the key is a simple string. An objects purpose though is not solely to work as a map, it just happens, that you can use it as such.
A Dictionary is a key/value map, where the key can be an object, too. This is useful, if you want to find values based on a specific object, that you have. The purpose of a Dictionary really is, to be used as a map.
The ‘dynamic’ keyword is used to make your own class be extendable in the way, that you can put things into an instance of that class at run-time. Something, which you cannot do, if you do not use the keyword ‘dynamic’.