How to avoid reusing identical implementation code with an interface?

Question

First of all, I apologize for \"yet another interface question\". I thought that this one might be worth asking, though, as it\'s kind of a strange issue. The project I\'m u

Answer 1

In other languages, that support multiple inheritance, there is an easy way to do it without all your game objects needing to have a common ancestor: your spaceships could inherit from a base ship class, as well as a linked list element class. Unfortunately, AS3 does not support multiple inheritance, so you have to choose to either:

A. Use an interface exactly as you suggest

or

B. Have all your game object base classes inherit from a common ancestor that implements the linked list functionality and extends Sprite (or MovieClip), instead of your game object base classes extending Sprite or MovieClip directly.

I'd probably go with the latter, to solve your exact problem. I'd probably derive from Sprite or MovieClip and call the thing GamePoolObject or something to that effect...