Thanks, can you give me some examples of loops like that? Joel
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Edward Gray II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rob Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 12:36 PM Subject: Re: Could I put commands in a variable > On Feb 20, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Rob Dixon wrote: > > > Hi Daniel. > > > > I haven't looked at your code, but I don't think a rewrite is in the > > spirit of helping beginners at Perl. It may occasionally be the best > > answer, but I suspect you're simply enjoying yourself here ;) > > > > I wonder what others think? > > I have mixed feeling about it. > > I think we generally teach them a little more by touching up what they > have written, correcting their problems or providing simple insights. > I think it sinks in a little better that way. > > On the flip side, we can't teach them as much that way, because we > can't show them the possibly better ways of doing things. I don't know > about you, but I much prefer the structure of Daniel's version of the > posted code (though hopefully without the duality bug :D ), to my own > simple clean up. And as you have already pointed out, the problem is > ripe for an OO solution as well, which I would like even better. While > I would love to write that, I fear Joel isn't ready for that yet. (No > offense Joel. You have a working program and that's all anyone can ask > for early projects. Keep working at it and you'll get there.) > Unfortunately, even Daniel's version is a bit too arcane, I think. > > My original thought was to build a hash for each room (description, > exits, etc.) and load them all into a master hash, by name. Then you > could write a pretty simple loop to just walk the master hash. It > would also be super simple to move that to disk based data files, which > I think would be cool. That's probably closer to a design Joel might > be able to put to good use, but I ruled even that out because I would > have to use references. > > Of course, if Joel keeps at this, eventually, he's going to try to go > to one of these ideas and chances are we could maybe inspire him to > that point with a teaser. > > How's that for a circular answer? <laughs> > > In the end, I think this is a perfect example of while Perl Beginners > is a terrific resource. There's so many of us helping and we're all so > different. Joel got some good answers from both sides of the fence and > hopefully that will help him along. I don't know about you, but that's > all I hope for in return for my time spent. > > James > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
