On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:58:02 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > "solaris_1234" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 1) The stmt "board.Blist[10].DrawQueen(board.Blist[10].b1)" seems >> awkward. Is there another way (cleaner, more intuitive) to get the >> same thing done? > > Yes. Reaching through objects to do things is usually a bad idea.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I don't understand why you say this. Why it is bad? > Some languages don't allow you to do that at all; Fortunately we aren't using "some languages", we're using Python, and so we aren't forced to fill our classes with helper functions when we can simply call the object methods directly. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
