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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Help with Deck of cards assignment and getting it to deal...
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On 9/7/2014 9:45 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/20/2014 5:50 AM, Chris Uppal wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> How about: "Because making it easier to get things wrong than to get
>>>> things right is rarely a good idea" ?
>>>
>>> You think that because Card is Comparable<> then people would mess up
>>> the core game logic of comparing hands?
>>>
>>> I am not so worried about that. That is one thing that will typical
>>> be very well-defined in the game rules.
>>
>> What I'd expect to see is people attempting to use the Comparable<>
>> interface
>> regardless of the game rules.  And then patching their logic with ad-hoc
>> special cases when they realised that the pre-defined Comparable<>
>> didn't do
>> exactly what the rules require.
>>
>> Better not to set traps for the unwary.
>
> Avoid adding stuff that could be used wrong seems as a hopeless
> strategy to me.

     Avoiding stuff that is seldom right seems worth while, though.

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