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Formatting ActionScript syntax

Formatting ActionScript 2.0 code in a standardized way is essential to writing maintainable code, and it's easier for other developers to understand and modify. For example, it would be extremely difficult to follow the logic of a FLA file that has no indenting or comments, as well as inconsistent naming conventions and formatting. By indenting blocks of code (such as loops and if statements), you make the code easy to read and debug.

For more information on formatting code, see the following topics:

• General formatting guidelines
• Writing conditional statements
• Writing compound statements
• Writing a for statement
• Writing while and do..while statements
• Writing return statements
• Writing switch statements
• Writing try..catch and try..catch..finally statements
• About using listener syntax

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