From: "Sebastjan H." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-08-03T16:14:26+09:00
Subject: Re: learning by doing part 2 - tc game

Jan E. wrote in post #1071102:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, don't misuse instance variables to pass values to methods.
> This makes the code obscure and fragile -- and it's simply bad design.
> Use method parameters instead (that's what they're for). The purpose of
> instance variables is to hold the state of an object.

> It your case it cannot even work, because you have different objects.
> The dragon object cannot access the instance variables from the top
> level object.
>
> So the fix for this would be to simply add a parameter to the "effect"
> method for the opponent:
>
> def effect(opponent)
>
> And maybe further parameters for other values.

Thank you very much for reminding me of the basic rules.

kind regards
seba

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