Proposal to Adobe for a Core Animation Library

Go calls for a common AS3 animation library. But take another step back and it’s apparent that there’s no common thread at the product level either. Flash, Flex and After Effects all support ECMA-based motion-scripting capabilities, with nary a stripe of animation code in common.
Diagram: Current Situation
I am proposing very simply that Adobe create a [...]

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Go at Hydrotik

Donovan has been messing around with Go to nice effect at his blog Hydrotik.
The cool thing about Go is that it doesn’t define any syntax: You define it yourself. So although Donovan is already doing some amazing color tweens and Matrix transforms, that’s totally his implementation.
Others have used Go to create a Fuse-style object [...]

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Method closures with arguments

I wanted to thank Barney Boisvert for pointing out that it’s possible to store arguments with a method closure by wrapping them in a second closure:

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