Re: [Rails-devel] Route and revenue calculation.

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

On 7/10/06, John A. Tamplin <ja...@ja...> wrote:
> brett lentz wrote:
>
> >You don't need a list. All you need is the logic for determining
> >whether a route is legal or not. i.e. Contiguous track segements,
> >passing through at least one city with the owner's token, not passing
> >through blocked cities, not going red-to-red, etc.
> >
> >Instead of generating the list of all legal routes, you simply apply
> >the single route given by the user to the set of rules used for
> >determining the validity of the route. If valid, we return the value
> >of the route and move onward.
> >
> >
> I still think the "test" portion of the "generate and test" is the
> complicated part, and little is saved but much lost by leaving out the
> route computation.  Aside from that, giving feedback to the user will
> require more work, as you have to figure out which hexes might be legal
> to add to what he has clicked already.  I don't see this being
> sufficient (if any) savings in effort versus just doing it right in the
> first place.
>
>

Fair enough.   You're probably a better judge of the amount of work involved.


---Brett.