From: Matthew D Moss <matthew.moss@...>
Date: 2005-04-15T12:39:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Knight's Travails (#27)

> I couldn't decide if I thought this class was named correctly.  It
represents
> a square or "tile" of the chess board, but when I think of a square
it's as
> a container for a piece.

It was only four letters to type.  :)


> The 'a'[0] construct is a little unusual and I'm not sure why it's
used here.  > Most Ruby gurus just use ?a, which means the exact same
thing.

Well, I used 'a'[0] cause I'm still a Ruby-newbie.  I was unaware of
the ?a construct.


> (Note that an Array could be used in place of the Hash, since the
keys are
> ordered numerical indexes.)

Yeah, I noticed that only after looking at the code again a few days
later. I think originally I had something else in mind, but in the end
a simple array would have been sufficient.