Porting code example (Ruby to Elixir)

1. Put *.beam in your .gitignore
2. defstruct team: nil, kind: nil, move: nil, see: nil, ... could be written as defstruct [:team, :kind, :move, :see...]
3. Use tuples is more idiomatic elixir instead of fixed sized lists e.g. in def get(grid, [:red, x, y])

Agreed and committed. Thank you!

Hl

I think you can refactor the show_cell function to remove the conditional and assignments.

   defmodule Grid do
      def show_cell(grid, xx, yy) do
        grid
        |> Grid.get({:red, xx, yy})
        |> Bot.to_string
        |> IO.write
      end
    end

defmodule Bot do
  def to_string(nil), do: "-"
end

Also excellent ideas. Committed.

I think, defender, fighter, scout, flag and related behavior are good to demonstrate how to work with Elixir protocols.

Created first small PR. I will help you more today or/and in next days. This will depend on your response times and my free time

That is a good idea. I don’t think I’ll introduce protocols here at first, but I
could always refer back to the code later and show changes.

Hal

Merged. Appreciated. Just remember we may be in different time zones.

By the way The Ruby version is not “ideal” either. The non-threaded version is
easier to watch/understand, but the threaded one is a massive free-for-all, and I
am not sure how I want to fix it.

Hal

Yes I mean I will send PR if I find some time in same day you merged previous.
What does mean:

FIXME pieces[team] << bot

?
I do not see a pieces declaration in this file …
And this comment:

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Tip: here you have a tutorial about creating a command line application in Elixir.
I will create a next PR in current week (first version of this app that works from command line).