From: Jon Garvin <jgarvin.lists@...>
Date: 2008-04-23T03:52:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Where did the monsters go?

Ben Galyean wrote:
> Stuck again. My random monster-fight generator works, but it's so BASIC.
> How can I do this without the if-statements? Is it a bad thing to stick
> class objects into an array?
>
> Also, I know Moblist[0].fight works, but why not Moblist[0..2].fight ?
>
>
> ##############################################
> class Mob
>   def fight
>     "THIS IS A FIGHT METHOD"
>   end
> end
>
> GOBO = Mob.new
> DRAGON = Mob.new
> SLIME= Mob.new
>
> Moblist = [GOBO, DRAGON, SLIME]
>
> def rand_fight
>   a =  rand(Moblist.length)#<-----------Has to be a better way|
>     if a ==0 then GOBO.fight
>       elsif a==1 then DRAGON.fight
>       elsif a==2 then SLIME.fight
>     end#------------------------------------------------------|
>
> end
>
> p rand_fight
> ##############################################
>   
Try this....

def rand_fight
    monster = Moblist[rand(Moblist.length)]
    monster.fight
end

or...

def rand_fight
    Moblist[rand(Moblist.length)].fight
end


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