title: Placing AS3 code on stage/MC timelines a la AS2 instead of in classes
body: <p>I'm aware that ActionScript 3.0 is designed from the ground up to be a largely object-oriented language and using it means less or even no timeline code in Flash documents.</p>
  
  <p>I'm quite experienced with OOP and am comfortable writing classes. However, since I mostly use Flash for animations, I hardly ever <em>need</em> to write ActionScript code other than for preloaders, subtitles, quality controls, website links and so on. In fact, I still set my Flash movies to use AS2 to this day because I'm used to <code>gotoAndPlay()</code>/<code>gotoAndStop()</code>, AS2 preloaders, subtitles, quality controls and even <code>getURL()</code>. Of course, I really want to move on now that practically everyone's on Flash Player 9 or 10 and now that I've dabbled with other OO languages like Java, C# and Objective-C too.</p>
  
  <p>I'm a complete newcomer to AS3 and am not very learned with AS2 either. Considering my current use of ActionScript, are there any cases where it's still OK to use very simple AS3 code in the timeline instead of moving code to a class, especially since moving to a class might mean unnecessarily increasing the number of LOC from 4 to 40? <em>(Heck, is the latter case ('instead of ...') even a valid concern at all?)</em></p>