Lately I was building a class which takes XML as it's configuration, reads part of it and then calls super() with some parameters.

However I wanted to throw an error if the XML did not contain valid settings, and Flex doesn't let you do that. Upon compilation it returns an error saying 1201: A super statement cannot occur after a this, super, return, or throw statement.

Fortunately, it's possible to overcome this by creating a helper function or class that will throw the error for you, so that's what I did with my ErrorThrower class. It is as simple as it can get, and it fools the compiler alright.

[code as3] package com.seld.errors { public class ErrorThrower { public function ErrorThrower(msg:String, id:int = 0):void { throw new Error(msg, id); } } } [/code] Then with that class, instead of doing throw new Exception('foo'); you just do new ErrorThrower(msg); and it will be compiled, error free.