# Growing pains - AS2 to AS3 and nothing I do to my .as is getting evaluated?

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**Created:** [August 15, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/growing-pains-as2-to-as3-and-nothing-i-do-to-my-as-is-getting-evaluated/268554 "2008-08-15T05:35:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/growing-pains-as2-to-as3-and-nothing-i-do-to-my-as-is-getting-evaluated/268554/1 "2008-08-15T05:35:23Z")

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Strangest thing here… I am attempting to dive head first into AS3 by what I’m hoping is just mildly tailoring an example:

> **[import a csv document in to flash](https://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=290139)**
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and take advantage of AS3’s sprite (and maybe other things).

I had begun my descent down the rabbit hole by encountering a 1046 which led me to AS3 Publish Settings where I set my classpath. That was ok. Now, however, neither in my now-associated classpath’d .as nor in the “parent” .fla do any (like Any) changes to my .as code seem to be interpreted: I can break syntax like leave off quotes or curly braces, and I get no errors… CTRL-ENTER tests movie just fine (but without actions, of course).

Is there some caching mechanism? Some “if the user is breaking it like that, don’t even bother compiling” switch?

_confused_