From: Peter Marsh <evil_grunger@...>
Date: 2007-04-25T00:29:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Cards Class

@Everyone

Thanks for the positive feedback/ideas :D
Robert Dober wrote:
> On 4/23/07, Peter Marsh <evil_grunger@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I'm an utter newbie to Ruby (and OOP!) and I thought I'd share my
>> very first project. It's nothing special - just a simple class that
>> simulates a deck of cards, but I'd like to get your comments to see if
>> there's anything I can do better (enjoy!):
> This is indeed not a bad attempt at all, however ;)
>
> ...
> 
> HTH
> Robert

There are a lot of things in your post that're really great and have 
helped develop my (still limited) knowledge of Ruby.

I don't quite understand this, however:

> Cards = %w{ Deuce Three Four Five ...
> Suits = %w{ Spades Hearts Diamonds Clubs }

From what I've been able to work out it converts everything between {} 
into a string and then sticks that all in an array that Cards or Suits 
points to. Is this correct?

Also

> @deck[@top_card] or raise "There are only 42 cards in the deck ;)"

I understand what this means, but I'm unsure how to integrate this into 
my code.

Thanks for your help!

P.S. I implimented the whole '@top_card' system so that deck[] would not 
have to be refilled with numbers each time it was shuffled - I had 
worries about speed but perhaps in this case they were a bit to extreme.

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