Re: [Rails-devel] 18EU minor initial sale round bugs

[Stefan F. (web.de) <ste...@we...>]

Chris:
The good reason is that internally all cases are covered by the identical 
action, called "pass". So not surprising that the button triggering the 
action is labelled "pass". Similar to buy and sell actions ;-).

But I think that adding a field "alternativeLabel" to the Null Action (maybe 
even to superclass PossibleAction) might come in handy in such situations, 
where the game labels semantically identical actions differently.

Stefan


On Friday 25 June 2010 22:21:58 Chris Shaffer wrote:
> > [EV] Indeed. I don't actually see why "Pass" would not cover "Decline to
> > bid" as well. I don't see any need to make that distinction.
>
> It is problematic to explain rules when the interface does not match the
> terminology in the rules.  "Pass" has a specific meaning that is different
> from "decline to bid."
>
> I'm not sure why there would be resistance to having Rails match the game
> rules?  What good reason could there be for desiring a conflict in
> terminology?
>
> --
> Chris