I actually feel like AS3 could go further with static typing. Due to things like promotions with arithmetic operators, you lose some performance. I always fel

I actually feel like AS3 could go further with static typing. Due to things like promotions with arithmetic operators, you lose some performance. I always felt it would be better to either force the user to explicitly cast between floating point operators and ints, and crash if they tried to do something with an int that would lead to a float.