Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Help with Deck of cards assignment and getting it to deal... Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 18:34:09 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 22:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b896cb427f8c4d19d14880347aa9d6ce"; logging-data="6208"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18wmbkzIO/lcIcCTtI7FHA/IvxWBem2f6E=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:SU4kIt2S3Fnd5kkmWmgEcKgVf+4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29546 On 08/03/2014 06:19 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote: > On 08/03/2014 05:37 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote: > >> I've not written an interface that compares Collections of Ranks >> or Suits or Cards or Decks. A Game will require such behavior. >> I still believe that behavior is implementable using the interfaces >> I've described, and not uncleanly. Please describe a *simple* >> situation that disproves my belief, I promise not to exercise my >> Weasel options. > > "as an ook cometh of a litel spyr". There I've done it. > One variation of my all time favorite quotation becomes > apropos if we consider the interfaces I've proposed as > part of the "litel spyr". > > Someone please tell me if I should be concentrating on this evening's supper of ground beef patties instead of following comp.lang.java.programmer.