http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T20:09:07 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/specs/actionscript/3/as3_specification44.html#45798 The "use namespace" statement accepts a list of one or more namespaces, so you can use parentheses or omit them. It's up to you. As for the lack of semicolons, ECMAScript has something called "Automatic Semicolon Insertion" (Section 7.9 of ECMA-262 3rd ed.). Semicolons are optional in many, but not all, circumstances. Omitting semicolons is a matter of personal style, and is not necessarily considered a best practice. The engineer who wrote these examples prefers not to use semicolons. Please keep in mind that this is a beta document. Your input is important, and I will definitely consider adding semicolons to all code examples if the lack of them interferes with your comprehension of the code samples. Francis Cheng 1 1 2006-03-06T15:05:48 http://livedocs.adobe.com/specs/actionscript/3/as3_specification44.html#45696 use namespace(mx)<br /><br />This example conflicts with http://livedocs.macromedia.com/specs/actionscript/3/as3_specification11.html#wp160165 :<br />use namespace English<br />I'm about brackets around namespace.<br /><br />And what about careless way of code examples (for example semicolns at the end of statements)? Constantiner 0 0 2006-03-02T12:04:59