RE: [Rails-devel] Stock market revisited

[Brett L. <wak...@ea...>]

>> 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.
>

Yes, I meant customizing the toString() output. I highly doubt the default=
 toString() output will be 
very helpful. ;-)

You're right that we were talking about different things.

Perhaps if we use toString() to output the current object state as XML,=
 that gives us an easy method of generating 
both game logs and a game state file for things like PBEM.

---Brett.