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Options for mxmlc compiler: file specification, output location, source paths, script limits, incremental builds, and loading configurations.

ActionScript (like JavaScript) lets you access object properties using two different notations. Consider the following class class A { public const CONSTANT:int = 34; } var a:A = new A(); The CONSTANT property of object a can be referred using the following two formats: a.CONSTANT a["CONSTANT"] Since CONSTANT is declared using const, it cannot be assigned a new value later on. So the following code doesn’t compile (as expected): a.CONSTANT = 23; However, the following code compiles and only throws an exception at run-time:...

This question was asked during IBM’s interview in our campus in 2005: How would you swap two integers in one statement without using a temporary variable in C/C++? After thinking about it for some time, this is what I got (this is in Java): class Swap { public static void main( String[] args ) { int a, b; a = 46; b = 47; System.out.println( "a = " + a + ", b = " + b ); a = b | ( 0 & (b = a)); System....