Just as a semantic point - a straight flush and a royal flush are the same hand. A royal flush is simply the highest possible straight flush.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 4:07 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ordering Poker hands > > That's not what I meant. I'm talking about manually assigning a value to a > hand, not using the ID field. So the dataset could look like this: > > 1|Two Pair|10 > 2|Flush|25 > 3|Straight Flust|50 > 4|Royal Flush|300 > > How is that not pure? Each hand has a distinct value correct? To me it > seems > as if you'd simply be saving time doing lookups for each hand when you > could > just compare numbers. > > <!----------------//------ > andy matthews > web developer > certified advanced coldfusion programmer > ICGLink, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 615.370.1530 x737 > --------------//---------> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:09 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ordering Poker hands > > > > why not just one table with the hands ordered appropriately? > > ....because I'm a bit of a data purist ;-) > > The order of records in a table "implying" a hierarchy is a no no in most > books. > IN my books it should be VERY explicit (thus my example)....no room for > confusion. > > Just think if someone accidentally deleted 2 pair and then it had to be > added as > the last record...thus "implying" 2 pair beats everything...bad bad bad ;- > ) > > Cheers > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259520 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
