Hi Blake,
I agree that you questions have general value and I'm happy to help
publicly. I only offered to help you offline because it is clear that you
are getting something from our conversation so I wanted to remove the
distractions of the public list if it was causing any difficulty.
It does
Just some quick thoughts. In the real world a deck of cards is just
that. There is no meaning in the cards themselves. Instead the meanings
are in
the rule book that comes with the game that you are playing. Also there
is no value in a card, but in the hand, or best hand out of possible
Hi Blake,
Although I think I'm following your questions, I still may not be.
For me it is ok to have a deck. The deck holds onto cards. Each instance
of card is a card that has attributes. Symbols are good for setting the
instance variables of the cards. You could have a method on deck
