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as3tohaxe

An Actionscript 3 to haXe converter written in Haskell

It’s not a complete translator. But the idea is to remove a lot of tedium when converting source code.

Check out my blog for progress updates and more.

There is a google group which has Mac and Windows binaries for download: http://groups.google.com/group/as3tohaxe

Translation Abilities

• datatypes
• function signatures
• “as” casting to “cast()”, “is” testing to “Std.is()”
• member variable initialization moved to constructor
• get and set functions are renamed and properties created
• for(;;) loops to for iterators and while loops
• package declarations
• constructor declarations
• SWF metadata tag to hxml file, comments out other metadata tags

Compiling

To compile the converter you’ll need a copy of ghc and parsec3 installed. I also use Data.Generics which is not Haskell 98. Check out SYB/Scrap Your Boilerplate for info.

Compile as3tohaxe.hs with ghc --make -XDeriveDataTypeable as3tohaxe.hs.
Then run as3tohaxe [dir | file].
The output will appear in the directory hx_output.