MTASC (Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler) is an
ActionScript 2.0 compiler written in the
OCaml
OCaml ( , formerly Objective Caml) is a general-purpose programming language, general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language which extends the Caml dialect of ML (programming language), ML with object-oriented programming, object-oriented ...
programming language by the company
Motion Twin. It is
free software and can be used alone or with other tools like
swfmill to produce
SWF
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files, which contain interactive multimedia content playable with the
Flash Player. MTASC is also much faster than the
Adobe Flash ActionScript compiler.
MTASC is built with optimizing OCaml compilers, and thus provides a speed improvement over the Macromedia Compiler (MMC). MTASC corrects several safety problems that occur when using MMC.
[Comparison of MTASC and Macromedia Compiler]
/ref> The MTASC compiler is stricter than MMC and can detect more errors than MMC; because of this strictness, there are some differences between MMC and MTASC.
MTASC is not compatible with ActionScript 2.0 in the local variables scoping, local function definitions, etc.
MTASC will not support ActionScript 3.0, which is supported by its successor, Haxe.MTASC And ActionScript 3
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See also
References
External links
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Adobe Flash
Free compilers and interpreters
OCaml software
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