Parentheses

You use parentheses when you define a function. You place the parameters inside parentheses:

function myFunction (name, age, reader){
// your code here
}

When you call a function, you include the parameters passed to the function inside parentheses:

myFunction (“Steve”, 10, true);

You also use parentheses to evaluate an expression on the left side of a dot in dot syntax. For example, in the following statement, the parentheses cause new Color(this) to evaluate and create a Color object:

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
(new Color(this)).setRGB(0xffffff);
}

If you don’t use parentheses, you must add a statement to evaluate the expression:

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
myColor = new Color(this);
myColor.setRGB(0xffffff);
}

Parentheses