Why doesn't ActionScript have “generics”?

Question

Can anyone tell me why ActionScript 3, a statically typed language, doesn\'t have generics? Is it too much work? A historical thing? Is there some way to \"fake\" it that I

Answer 1

Let's first get proper containers and algorithms in actionscript and then worry about generics...

as3 is not very different from javascript, btw, so your question would kind of apply to JS as well.