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		chrisan on July 25, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash ... > the static typing was extremely limited: you could only type "Function", not the actual arg and return value types You can type args and returns. One of the biggest things I relied on when I coded AS3

boubiyeah on July 26, 2017 [–]

I meant for higher order functions, callbacks, etc.

e.g, see the signature of Array.map:

map(callback:Function, thisObject:* = null):Array

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