From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-04-23T04:00:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Where did the monsters go?

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Ben Galyean <bengalyean@hotmail.com> 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
>  ##############################################

I'm not sure why you use constants, but...

class C
  def fight
    puts 'hi, nice to meet you'
    puts 'I am " << self.__id__.to_s
  end
end

a = Array.new(3) {C.new}
puts a[rand(a.size)].fight


Just to illustrate.

Todd