From: Reinder Verlinde <reinder@...>
Date: 2005-11-25T04:52:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RRobots - ducks, armed and dangerous

In article <4385BB50.5000408@gmx.de>,
 Simon Kr�ger <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> wrote:

> The best way to help and keep me motivated would be to post some cool
> bots here (along with the bug-reports and feature requests)

It looks cool. Now only if I could find time to write a bot or series of 
bots...

Here is a tiny bug report/feature request. The first I did was:

    ruby rrobots.rb SittingDuck.rb NervousDuck.rb

result:

    Error loading SittingDuck.rb!
    usage: rrobots.rb <FirstRobotClassName> <SecondRobotClassName>
            the names of the rb files have to match the class names of
            the robots e.g. 'ruby rrobots.rb SittingDuck NervousDuck'

This is easily corrected, but I think the code c/should be smart enough 
to notice that the '.rb' extensions already are there (with tab 
completion, typing the '.rb' is easier than not typing it)

I also have the first security breach to report. I do not think you 
intend that the following should be valid inside a robot:

    @battlefield.robots.each do |other|
      puts "robot #{other}: x #{other.x}, y #{other.y}"
    end

If a robot can do that, the radar seems extremely limited.

Reinder