Compile error when using a class by fully-qualified name

[TomBurgundy]

Hi... Is it an AS3 "feature" or a FB compiler bug that I cannot use a class without importing it?

I have a statement such as

if (de.codebank.util.StringUtilities.startsWith(status.name, phase.name+"_"))
{
     ...
}

which does not compile until I import the StringUtilities class, which is pointless, of course.

The compile error mentions an unknown property "util"

[TomBurgundy]

Knock, knock...

[Guest]

I believe this is how AS3 works. Fully qualified class types require import statement.

You use fully qualified name whenever you want to avoid ambiguity.

However, when the code is like,

import mx.collections.XMLListCollection;

var arr:mx.collections.ArrayCollection;

It works since compiler now understands that "mx.collections" is a package.