From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-10-18T04:04:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Lost Cities (#51)

On Oct 17, 2005, at 9:24 AM, Bob Showalter wrote:

> Daniel Sheppard wrote:
>
>> Just had 10 minutes to look at this, and created a quick test  
>> harness to
>> compare players before I go poking around trying to figure out  
>> what kind
>> of logic to use.
>>
>
> Daniel, this is awesome! I'm learning a ton just studying your code  
> and James'.
>
> There's a small bug in James' lost_cities.rb that affects your  
> program. Game.new does not clear the player's hand (it does clear  
> everything else). So if a player object is reused to play a second  
> game, he ends up with 16 cards in his hand, and the game is messed up.
>
> As a quick fix, I just added:
>
>   players.map { |x| x.hand.clear }
>
> before the call to Game.new() in your code.

Yes, Game.new() expects to be given fresh players.  Good catch.

James Edward Gray II