Typed Arrays

Nothing special here but if you want to have a look at one way of making an Array a specific type have a look at my take on it if you like.

package com.pj_co.types
{

        import flash.utils.Proxy

        /**
        * TODO check if an interface passed to
        * the constructor will cause a type error
        * @author Patrick Cousins
        */
        dynamic public class TypedArray extends Proxy
        {
                private var type		: Class;
                private var array 		: Array;

                public function TypedArray ( type : Class )
                {
                        this.type 	= type;
                        array 		= new Array();
                }

                override flash_proxy function getProperty ( name :*) :*
                {
                        return array [ name ] as type;
                }

                override flash_proxy function setProperty ( name :*, value :*) : void
                {
                        if ( value is type )
                        {
                                array [ name ] = value;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                                throw new TypeError ( "TypeError: the property named: "
                                                         + name + ", with value: "
                                                         + value + ", is not of type: "
                                                         + type                            ) ;
                        }
                }

        }

}

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