[ruby-talk:8613] Re: Hash access method

[e-mail] wrote:
>well, i don't know how much detail your ships have, but mine don't really
>have any, they are just numbers associated with a planet or a fleet.

Mine have a size, location, owner (I guess that 
would be which fleet they belong to), and they 
will soon have a current speed.

>
>this is the python planet class:
(snip)

Looks great, and easy to translate directly to 
Ruby.

>and this is the code that init's all the planets:
(snip)
>
>nothing fancy. no arrays, or hashes, or hashes of arrays, etc. the python
>code is very clean, readable, but most of all logical. i'm hoping the finished 
>ruby code will be also
>
>i'm trying to keep it very 'object oriented'. i don't feel that anything
>that belongs to a 'planet' should be outside of it's class...

That makes sense, and we're not suggesting 
otherwise. However, I would suggest that there is 
something bigger than a planet that holds all the 
planets. Perhaps it's a galaxy, or maybe it's 
just the game itself. Either way, it would be 
handy for this larger object to be able to treat 
the entire group of planets as a single entity, 
such as to pass it to a routine for searching or 
saving to disk. The array/hash solution does that 
(along with the other benefits).

Kevin