Performance :: Writing Down These Functions In A More Sophisticated Way?
Sep 9, 2011
I'm creating a simple scratch game (6 cards). It doesn't even have to contain difficult logic. You eventually win all the time ;)The code i wrote works pretty well, but i keep thinking it could be better. I'm not too familiar with coding, but i'm learning step by step. Do you have ideas to write this down in a cleaner and more sophisticated way?.g. I tried to separate the IF statement that returns in every function, so i would only have to write it down once, but i didn't succeed
//set card variables to 0 and when they're scratched, they're changed to 1
var checkCard1:int = 0, checkCard2:int = 0, checkCard3:int = 0, checkCard4:int = 0, checkCard5:int = 0, checkCard6:int = 0;
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