RE: [Rails-devel] End game.

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

> 
> See... I have exactly two problems with the side of the fence the
> three of you are on...
> 
> 1.  The addCash() method is a part of the CashModel, and not the Bank
> object. This means that this boolean is for both breaking the bank AND
> triggering forced purchase/sale actions for players.
> 
> 2. This is not how the current code works. We've been value checking
> things outside of the container classes for a very long time now. If
> you look at Bank, CashModel, and Portfolio, you'll see that none of
> them do this.
> 
> I do think that the approach you guys are advocating is a sound
> approach AND my changes don't disallow it. In fact, it shouldn't be
> difficult to use my change as the first step in building the rest of
> the bank breaking mechanism.

That is what I am doing now, in fact.

Just discovered that the criterion is (or can be) game-dependent,
although I have not yet seen cases where "runs out" is not used.
(I suppose you have followed the discussion in the 18xx group).
I make that the default (so the check will become <0).

Erik.