> Imagine a program which begins by asking, "Which game do you want to play?" and includes a card guessing game, blackjack, Uno!, go fish, and crazy eights. We want the values of the cards to lie in their use within each game, not where we shuffle and deal and discard from hands.
I maintain that you gain nothing (except the possibility of errors) by representing the cards as int-or-string here. Think about how you'd actually use the cards in implementing those games. With my enum-like scala representation you could do anything you could do with the clojure version, and you'd get the advantage of e.g. compiler warnings if you defined incomplete match/case statements.
I maintain that you gain nothing (except the possibility of errors) by representing the cards as int-or-string here. Think about how you'd actually use the cards in implementing those games. With my enum-like scala representation you could do anything you could do with the clojure version, and you'd get the advantage of e.g. compiler warnings if you defined incomplete match/case statements.