watching a talk about something called the "gilded rose kata" so I look it up and my thoughts roughly in order are:
- wtf is a kata
- wtf is a "code dojo"
- why are you storing current time-to-expiry and quality and mutating them that's a fantastic way to introduce all kinds of inconsistency and corruption and fucked up desynchronization bugs
- this problem is badly underspecified and in some places explicitly self-contradictory. what happens to the quality of conjured cheese? one rule says quality is never above 50 but another rule says this one item is always quality 80. also it never expires so what's the correct thing to do with the
SellInfield? - [now looking at the python code] why is this a class? there is no reason for this class to exist. this is just a function.
- why is this function iterating over a list? just process a single item and let the caller worry about how items are organized
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@sjolsen a kata is a concept from martial arts, especially karate. it's a choreographed series of moves used to teach precision of movement and intended to be practiced alone. ive seen "code kata" used to describe programming exercises, because the software industry has a problem with orientalism, i guess. as for the rest of the questions i can't help you there
