You are in for a headache if you have try to call a method or create a member variable with the name of a reserved word in Actionscript. It can lead to such fun situations as having variables called: insert; update; deleteSomething. Because calling the third variable “delete” may be logical but it is a reserved word so that is out of the question. It gets hairier when you don’t necessarily have control over the object format (such is often the case with remote calls). I ran into this today when trying to call the “node_delete” (or “node.delete”) method in Drupal via Services and AMFPHP. This is frustrating so I’m going to show two situations where you could run into this problem and how I fixed them.
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