Madness | Ludum Dare 24 game | Game Engine library

So, I was just reading about the Visitor pattern and I found the back and forth between the Visitor and the Elements very strange!

Basically we call the element, we pass it a visitor and then the element passes itself to the visitor. AND THEN the visitor operates the element. What? Why? It feels so unnecessary. I call it the "back and forth madness".

So, the intention of the Visitor is to decouple the Elements from their actions when the same actions need to be implemented across all the elements. This is done in case we need to extend our Elements with new actions, we don't want to go into all those classes and modify code that is already stable. So we're following the Open/Closed principle here.

Why is there all this back-and-forth and what do we lose if we don't have this?

For example, I made this code that keeps that purpose in mind but skips the interaction madness of the visitor pattern. Basically I have Animals that jump and eat. I wanted to decouple those actions from the objects, so I move the actions to Visitors. Eating and jumping increases the animal health (I know, this is a very silly example...)

Matplotlib madness...

I have a file called Pre_processing_File.py. This file pre-processes a text file (it works perfectly).

What I'm doing now is I have a separate .py file called naming.py. In the naming.py file I want to call the function in the Pre_processing_File.py and then save the preprocessed file in an excel format. (See current code below)

How can I automate my scoring formula to count odd rows as 1 for TRUE and even rows as 1 for FALSE?

I'm trying to import a quiz that I found in the back of an ancient, eldritch tome into G Sheets. The order of the questions is fixed - the notes in the margins are very specific that a "dire fate" awaits anyone who "dares disturb these ancient mysteries." So I'm putting the questions in G Sheets in order, but in order to count the scores, I need to have every odd row give +1 if the answer is TRUE and every even row give +1 if the answer is FALSE.

I know I could brute force this with addition, such as

=COUNTIF(C2,TRUE)+COUNTIF(C4,TRUE)+COUNTIF(C6,TRUE)...

but every minute I spend typing, I feel the tendrils of existential dread gnawing at the foundations of my soul. Plus, that sounds super-boring.

So, is there a way to automate having COUNTIF() (or COUNTIFS()) do this for me?

• ROW(), but it doesn't seem to play nice with COUNTIFS(), just gives me a 0.

=COUNTIFS(C2:C666,TRUE,A2:A666,ISEVEN(ROW)

• Adding a cheater-column that does this for me with ROW(), but I'm worried that tinkering with the table will unleash untold horrors on our world.
• Maybe something with DCOUNT or ARRAYFORMULA? But those seem to me MORE forbidden than the Necronomicon, not less.

Did try this, but it's just giving me the total number of true values:

=ARRAYFORMULA(COUNTIFS(A3:A24,ISEVEN(ROW()),A3:A24,TRUE))

What else y'all got?

Edit: final solution at the bottom.

I am trying to build a simple web-app to display some data stored in firestore database, using React Table v7. I'm pretty new to React and javascript in general so forgive me if I use the wrong terminology.

At first I had put the function to fetch data inside App.jsx, passing it to state with setState within a useEffect hook, and it was working without an issue.

Then a colleague suggested that it is a good practice passing data to a component state instead of the app state, and that's where problems started to arise.

As of now, I cannot manage to populate the table. The header gets rendered but there's nothing else, and the only way I can make it show data is to make a small change in Table.jsx while npm start is running (such as adding or changing the output of any console.log) and saving the file. Only then, data is displayed.

I've been trying everything I could think of for about 2 days now (last thing I tried was wrapping Table.jsx into another component, but nothing changed).

I tried console.loging all the steps where data is involved to try and debug this, but I'm failing to understand where the problem is. Here's the output when the app loads first:

My code currently:

• utility function to fetch data from Firestore

My old working code: List> pages = List>();

Now doesn't work with null safety:

The default 'List' constructor isn't available when null safety is enabled. Try using a list literal, 'List.filled' or 'List.generate'.dartdefault_list_constructor 'List' is deprecated and shouldn't be used. Use a list literal, [], or the List.filled constructor instead.

What a total nightmare this is. Madness. Help would be appreciated.

Raku makes it very easy to support existing functions on my new types by implementing [multi?|sub?] methods on my type. However, I'm wondering if it also provides a way to have existing (or new) methods apply to Lists or other positional collections of my type (without augmenting List, which is the first step on the path to madness…).

To be more concrete, here's what I'm talking about, using the Point class that seems to be everyone's go-to example for this sort of thing:

I'm trying to resolve a complicated form post in json format from the shopify CreateOrder webhook

To simplify testing and coding I wanted to recreate the post from the parameters = in the server. Output so that I don't have to create a cart each test cycle

This is an example from my log file:

I need to restrict my Players hand inside a radius around the character. The game is 2D and the hand movement is basically exactly the same as: Madness Interactive (https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/118826)