why does action script not support constructor over loading?

Question

This would make life so much simpler? is there an official reason or is it "were too lazy"

John_Hall · Answer

Don't know how anyone could answer the why here, unless they're an Adobe engineer. You can simulate overloading with an arguments array.

public function doSomething (myObject:Object = null, ...rest)

So you could do something like

public function savePersonalListItems (personName:String, ...rest) and then act upon the array of parameters that would be passed into the rest array. http://www.sephiroth.it/weblog/archives/2006/06/actionscript_3_rest_parameter.php

If you want to overload with known entities, it's probably just as good to go with default values so they parameters become optional

public function saveTopThreeItems( object1:Object = new Object(), object2:Object = new Object(), object3:Objects = new Object())

then you can pass in none or all three. Just some ideas that you may already implement.

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