RE: [Rails-devel] Drawing chits on the stock market

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

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 17:47 +0200, Erik Vos wrote:
> > I've been thinking about how to approach drawing the company chits on
> > the stock market. 
> 
> First a point of nomenclature: I have never heard the word "chit" before,
> and don't know what it means, except (obviously) out of the context where
> you use it. 


It's probably a regional dialect thing. I picked it up from the local
wargamers that play the large-scale hex & counter games like Totaler
Krieg.

Merriam-Webster defines chit as "a small slip of paper with writing on
it."


> I'd expect more non-native English speakers like me to have this problem.
> In the rule books I find "token" in most American and "marker" in most
> European-originated games, and I would prefer to standardis/ze on
> one of these two words.
> 
> I'd personally prefer "marker" for the stock market thingies and "token"
> for the map (station) ones, but maybe there are better ideas around.
>  


This is fine by me. 

In a similar vein, I prefer using the British spelling "colour" for our
object names because it adds another easy visual differentiator between
our objects from the java.awt.Color objects.



> > If we only store the display information in the View portion, I think
> > there may be problems when we need to save that information to a save
> > file.
> > 
> > So, in either StockMarket or StockSpace (probably StockSpace, 
> > i think),
> > does it make sense to add the ability to store what company 
> > stock chits
> > are currently occupying the space?  Any suggestions on how we should
> > store this? Does it sound like we need a new object class for this, or
> > should we use information from an existing object, like 
> > Company perhaps?
> 
> In the current classes I have included:
> - in StockSpace: an ArrayList of Companies having their markers (or tokens)
> there,
> in top-to-bottom sequence,
> - in PublicCompany: its currentPrice, which is a StockSpace instance,
> identifying
> the location of its stock price marker (or null for companies without priced
> shares).
> 
> So the marker's StockSpace and the marked Company have a mutual reference to
> each other.
> This is the way I would tend to approach issues like this.
> And this way we do not need a new class.


Ok... we should probably add accessor methods for obtaining the location
of the marker on the stock market. 




---Brett. 

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