Re: [Rails-devel] Initial unavailability of shares

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Erik Vos wrote:

> I didn't find it worthwhile to invent an XML
> structure to make all these rules configurable.

I agree -- since Java can load classes dynamically, it is better to write 
code in a real programming language than trying to extend XML to be a 
programming language.

A long time ago I used the same approach for a Java implementation of 
Cosmic Encounter (the cards all have arbitrary powers that alter the rules 
of the game).  New cards could be loaded by just including additional 
jars in a directory, and the game loaded all the cards that were defined 
there.  Perhaps Rails could be structured such that support for new games 
could be delivered the same way, once the core supported all the 
mechanisms that any of the games might need.

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