Coming Together With OOP
With all that’s been said and done, we can now begin to see how Flash handles its objects in OOP with Actionscript, most of which revolves around certain automatically assigned properties which handles object interaction.

Functions: Automatic Properties
constructor		Reference to the Function Object
__proto__		Reference to Function.prototype
prototype		A generic Object instance
Prototype: Automatic Properties
constructor		Reference to the Function Object
__proto__		Reference to Object.prototype
Class Instances (new Function()): Automatic Properties
constructor		Reference to constructor function
__constructor__		Reference to constructor function
__proto__		Reference to constructor function’s prototype

The big player being __proto__ controlling inherited properties in methods. Also important, though, is __constructor__ for when a class instance is created as a prototype object, that object can then correctly reference the super class for instances of that prototype’s class. Its those two properties that define inheritance for Flash Actionscript 1.0.

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