Altering Object class source

Question

For whatever reason the ActionScript base class Object has no
equals method. I want to change this so extending classes can
override this method to define their own equality. Extending Object
to include an equals method gets a bit messy since I would need to
support the "primitive" classes, like String, which extend Object.
I've added an implementation to Object in Global.as and this
goes as far as tricking the compiler. However during execution a
method not found exception is thrown. Looking at Global.as it seems
that this file doesn't contain implementations of methods.
Anyone have an idea of where the implementation for the
library classes are? Perhaps in the player itself? Additionally, am
I running the risk of player version incompatibilities?

Answer 1

I think there's an ObjectUtils class.
HTH;
Amy
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> For whatever reason the ActionScript base class Object
has no equals
> method. I
> want to change this so extending classes can override
this method to
> define
> their own equality. Extending Object to include an
equals method gets a
> bit
> messy since I would need to support the "primitive"
classes, like String,
> which
> extend Object.
>
> I've added an implementation to Object in Global.as and
this goes as far
> as
> tricking the compiler. However during execution a method
not found
> exception is
> thrown. Looking at Global.as it seems that this file
doesn't contain
> implementations of methods.
>
> Anyone have an idea of where the implementation for the
library classes
> are?
> Perhaps in the player itself? Additionally, am I running
the risk of
> player
> version incompatibilities?
>