From: Thufir <hawat.thufir@...>
Date: 2008-02-22T17:46:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner help - txt dungeon

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:41:54 +0900, Huw Collingbourne wrote:

> The attraction of a hash is that the key would not need to be a number -
> it could actually the name of a room { :east => :dungeon, :south =>
> :cave } and so on.
> 
> In fact, I wrote a simple example of a game framework in Smalltalk that
> uses exactly this method:
> 
> map at: 'Station 1' put: 'Belsize Park';
>   at: 'Station 2' put: 'Chalk Farm';
>   at: 'Station 3' put: 'Camden Town';
>   at: 'Your destination' put: 'Mornington Crescent'.


Yes, that's much more readable than mapping integers around :)

Ok, I'm starting to see the advantages to Hash!


-Thufir