Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 17:36:54 02/14/03
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Matt Taylor wrote:
>>> Unfortunately. I guess they're convinced that the program might decide
>>> to run itself without starting another process. I think Math.sin is
>>> ridiculous.
...
>> Well, how else would you distinguish it from Religion.sin? ;-)
...
> I guess that might be a problem for an AI programmer who -really- wants
> to pass the Turing Test. I would make it a class, personally:
>
> abstract public class Sin
> {
> // yadda
> }
>
> public class Steal extends Sin
> {
> // yadda
> }
>
> public class Kill extends Sin
> {
> // yadda
> }
Classic OO design error. Those should be methods, not classes.
The classes would be things like Theft and Murder, or possibly
Thief and Murderer. :-)
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