I am not unfamiliar with HaXe. The only reason I can imagine for the authors having done this is that they did not know better. I am inclined to give them more

I am not unfamiliar with HaXe. The only reason I can imagine for the authors having done this is that they did not know better. I am inclined to give them more credit than that, however, so I posted a question in the hopes that somebody else might have insight.