663937 - ANI: offer a robust string-to-C++-enum utility

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tamarin Graveyard :: Virtual Machine, defect, P2)

Description

[Steven Johnson]

Idiomatic AS3 usage in Flash uses Strings for "enum"-ish values in lots of places. PlayerToplevel has two (different) utilities for dealing with doing conversion from String to C++ enum (and back). We should probably have the VM provide a single such utility and migrate existing code to use it.

Comment 1

[Tommy Reilly]

Alternative proposal, use plain dynamic objects with string key's and int values, or for the other way use Array's with String values where array index==enum value.   Ie move the problem to actionscript.     If we had const/immutable tables the VM could do the translations as a constant folding optimization.