Re: [Rails-devel] Comments on Patch for Disclaimer, UserConfirmation and new Main-Class

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

On 1/22/07, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:
>
>
> > >I agree that in principle there should not be public variables.
> > >Do we really have sinned as much as you seem to imply?
> > >It is possible that I have not always been consistent,
> > >so I would appreciate your examples of wrong use of public etc.
> > For example, all windows (views) are public, so I guess you
> > call them direct
> > from the gmae-classes (model).
>
> No, the UI classes are in control, and pull all info from the game
> classes.
> The only exception is the use of the Observer pattern
> to keep the UI fields up to date. But here also the UI Observer
> must register at the game Observable.
>
> So it might very well be true that the UI classes don't need to be public.
> Your fault, Brett... ;-)



Yeah, I admit that I've made plenty of mistakes. :-)



----Brett.