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From time to time - expecially after asking google - you stumble upon gems like this one. If you ever wanted to generate lookup-tables for static methods without the need to check if they’re already full of tasty values then static initializers in AS3 are for you:

package
{
	// static initializer
	{
		fillLookupTable();
	}

	internal function fillLookupTable():void
	{
		// do some math, array pushing etc. here :]
	}
}

Via barneyb