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			</script><div class="MainContent"><br><p>This section provides syntax, usage information, and code samples for global functions and properties (those elements that do not belong to an ActionScript class); and for the constants, operators, statements, and keywords used in ActionScript and defined in the ECMAScript (ECMA-262) edition 4 draft language specification.</p><br><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="summaryTable"><tr><th>&nbsp;</th><th width="30%">Language Element</th><th width="70%">Description</th></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="package.html#constantSummary">Global Constants</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">Top level or global constants are available in every script, and are visible to every Timeline and scope in your document.</td></tr><tr class="prow0"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="package.html#methodSummary">Global Functions</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">Top level or global functions are available in any part of a SWF file where ActionScript is used, or in any user-defined class.</td></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="operators.html">Operators</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">Symbolic operators are characters that specify how to combine, compare, or modify the values of an expression.</td></tr><tr class="prow0"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="statements.html">Statements, Keywords & Directives</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">Statements are language elements that perform or specify an action at runtime.</td></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="specialTypes.html">Special Types</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">The three special types are the untyped specifier (*),
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