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Re: [pygame] When to use a constant
I would make velocity a class with x and y components, so that the code would
be:
sim_object.velocity.y
I'm not saying this is the best way to do it, however. I'm interested to see
what other people would do.
--- Jon Doda <jdoda@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I'm working on a simple 2D physical simulation. The various simulation
> objects have position and velocity attributes that store the x and y
> components in a list. So, to get the y component of velocity for some
> object you do something like "sim_object.velocity[1]".
>
> Recently I've been tempted to define constants for the index values of
> the lists, so I'd have X = 0, and Y = 1, and the code from above would
> be "sim_object.velocity[Y]". It would make reading the simulation code
> somewhat easier (no more converting 0 to x and y to 1 in my head) but it
> would add a level of indirection, which could be confusing.
>
> So, the question is, would using constants in this way be a reasonable
> thing to do, or is it bad practice?
>
> --
> Jon Doda
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