Agree, I love how people tell me I don't know anything when they ask me what the highest "hand" is. It's a straight flush, just as their are a top pair, there is a top straight flush.
On 11/7/06, Doug Bezona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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:259528 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
