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It would have to at least be recompiled, and have appropriate binaries for the dependencies available as well. Should be very possible though. Maybe someone should send a couple to Toady.

One thing about this computer that's a bit boring is that there's just one USB port. You'll either need an external USB hub or live with keyboard only. Also a bit unsure about how it does networking (or if it does at all).

There must be a million standard conventions. This is the one we use for C++ at work:

Everything is CamelCase
Classes begin with uppercase: class ClassName
Member variables begin with m: mMemberVariable
Static variables begin with s: sStaticVariable
Function begin with lowercase: functionName()
Function parameters begin with a: aParameter
Local variables begin with lowercase: localVariable

I don't see the point of using separate notation for private and public members. Is there something special in C# that warrants it? Underscores make my eyes bleed so I never used them. Particulary hate the Microsoft way of using single and double underscores every bloody where.

That's incorrect. One mole is the amount you have of a substance if you have a number of particles of it equal to avogadro's constant. The formal definition is the number of atoms in 12g of carbon-12. So you have one mole of something if you have 6.02214078×10^23 particles of it.

Kill me now.

Quote from: devek on May 11, 2011, 08:55:14 am

Classes and inheritance are great, but you need to be justified when you use them. They either make your code more simple or they don't

They might make your code less simple, but more extensible. Often I have to re-do entire sections because I failed to adhere to strict inheritance and tried to do too much in a single class.

And since I'm extending my code continuously, adhering to the "everything is a class and preferably even multiple and almost everything inherits from everything else" has saved me a lot of time. In this case I'd even make a Descriptor abstract class that WeaponDescription and Material both inherit from.

Oh and Max, try to decide if you want to start your membernames with capitals or not, you're now doing both at the same time

Inheritance is powerful, but it can quickly become too much of the good. Trying to debug and improve decade-old code with 6-7 levels deep inheritance chains is not fun at all. This was my day today...

Only if there is an implementation-specific difference that requires such subclassing, for instance Melee and Ranged weapons, although a generic weapon and material class probably won't hurt in any case.

You can pretty much change your mind whenever though, a Sword is still a Weapon and can be treated as such without losing any of its unique Swordiness.

FakeEdit: Ninja

A norwegian land-mile or "rast" was once defined as the appropriate distance to walk before you can justify taking a break. Nowadays it's just defined as 10 km.