RE: [Rails-devel] Stock market revisited

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

> >The StockChart moveXxxx() methods already write the moves to 
> System.out,
> >if that is what you want. 
> >(I guess this will later be replaced by writing to a log).
> >
> 
> The reason I suggest using toString() is that this will allow 
> us to use it for many other things beyond simply testing the classes.
> 
> For example, it's an easy way for us to gather reporting data 
> about the state of the game by using each objects toString() 
> method rather than polling every getFoo() method for every 
> property within the object.

Well, you can always call toString(), but perhaps you mean
to customise its output? Like what?

I was talking about objects reporting their state *changes*.
We need that to create a readable game log (e.g. for PBEM).

Using toString() to report *current state* is fine with me.

Erik.