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Whilst what Xen says will work, it's possibly worth pointing out there is also a "===" operator.

The difference being that "==" will do type conversion to encourage a match, whilst "===" is stricter and requires same type too.

For example:

var a = 0;
var b = '0';
 
document.write(a==b);
document.write('\n');
document.write(a===b);

Some people argue you should always do === (unless you explicitly need == instead), though I'm not sure how much it matters (possibly a bit slower for non-matches, but most likely not worth worrying about).

Oh, and another thing:

currentPlayer == 1 ? currentPlayer = 2: currentPlayer = 1;

I would write that like this:

currentPlayer = (currentPlayer == 1) ? 2 : 1;

Because it's less repetitive, and thus less error-prone.

In this situation, you could also do "currentPlayer = 3-currentPlayer" which is even simpler (though more cryptic to understand).

And one more post, in a last ditch attempt to not have to go write a really boring report thing - this is all based on there only ever being two players.

It's good practise to write more modular code that can be used for other purposes - for this example, multi-player turn-based switching can be done with very little extra work:

function switchCurrentPlayer()
{
	currentPlayer++
 
	if ( currentPlayer > PlayerCount )
	{
		currentPlayer=1
	}
 
}

Set PlayerCount to any number, and this will cycle through them in order, whether there is 2 or 20 players.

(The "++" just means "add one")


Anyway, I better get on with wasting time doing what I'm supposed to be doing right now. :(

Don't show me these things when I am busy k thx :(

(giggle)

Wow, just wow.

 

Peter, why are you not ruling the world, or even just Britain by now?

 

The last email made a lot more sense to me and is in the style of scripting that the OU is teaching.

 

Come one peter, become that evil genius we all know and love.

Huh? I don't get that. Surely to cycle through you'll need a while or for loop?

Possibly badly worded - by "cycle through" I just meant each time called you'd get the appropriate next player - you'd call the function at the end of each player's turn (which in most games is a manually triggered event).

I don't know why. :(

Am I not allowed to be a non-evil one?

No, Google called dibs on that one.

Google is teh evil, you just wait! They will have chickens with lasers on their heads before long.

As long as they still do regular firmware updates for Android, who cares?

My desire is lacking the 2.2 goodness, therefore they are evil.