I don't see it as a problem to have a method for remembering how many sides the die has, especially since it's two real lines of code and the instance has to have that in order to useful (so it's persistent data anyway). Since he is doing this as a learning exercise, it's a good point to be made though.

As far as dice objects go, I prefer to have a Face attribute, which does hold the most recent roll. Completely useless in many circumstances, but what if this is for a game of Yahtzee? Then the number on the top of the die is very important. Also, as an amusing trick, I'd like to see an OppositeFace () method.

By carefully abusing list vs. scalar context, the same method can be made to return a single roll or a list of several rolls (of the same die). Also useful would be a sum method to total up several rolls into a single scalar result.

Gee, I'm glad I have no idea what a pseudo-hash is given it's shaky future. I would have used "our" to create a default hash if it were really needed, but prefer to simply set the defaults in the new constructor.

In reply to (ichimunki) Re (tilly) 1: Dice::Dice by ichimunki
in thread Dice::Dice by coreolyn

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