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On 21/12/12 18:36, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> On 12/21/12 12:58 AM, lipska the kat wrote:
>> On 20/12/12 22:00, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>>> On 12/20/2012 1:35 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:30:09 -0800, Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
>>> ...
>>>>> Perhaps more importantly, why do we need an order?
>>>>
>>>> Many card games require order to rank hands or determine which
>>>> card beats which.
>>>
>>> I agree that a game may require and impose an order, but each game's
>>> order is different. Indeed, the order can even change during a game. For
>>> example, the ranking for winning trick in a bridge game depends on the
>>> contract and the suit of the trick's lead card.
>>>
>>> I expect many games to declare and use a Comparator<Card>. I'm
>>> suggesting that Card should not itself be Comparable.
>>>
>>
>> A Comparator is an abstraction of what we as human beings do when we
>> compare values. You can have a Comparator that compares in any way you
>> want.
>>
>> A Comparator would effectively implement a sub set of the rules of the
>> game. Seems a perfectly logical suggestion to me
>>
>> Once again if not a Comparator then what.
> Patricia is agreeing with the use of Comparator, and against the use of
> Comparable, two very different interfaces.

Read the entire post before commenting. I agree with Patricia

lipska


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