Another Few Ideas

An exchange with Bill triggers some ideas for the flood. It’s 0330 hours. Let’s see what we can do. I woke up and can’t get back to sleep. Since I have a couple of ideas for the flood, I decided to get up and work on them. I have a few things in mind, one of them slightly larger than the others. Rename the frontier and examined variables for clarity, and any others that seem to follow; Break out chunks of the code into separate methods, again for naming clarity of those chunks; Create a “Method Object” to do the actual work. Give it a fluent interface. Obviously that last one is the larger. I envision a Flood object, into which we’ll move all the code. I’m not sure whether we’ll keep a flood method on cell or not, but I’m leaning toward replacing it with the Flood facility. Despite it being the hardest bit and despite the obscene hour, I think we’ll start with the Flood object. Rather than write new tests for it, we’ll try to refactor the existing flood to create and use the new…