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2 total messages Started by Bert Edens Mon, 05 Oct 1992 12:05

#1553

Author: Bert Edens
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 12:05

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Greetings...
    I wanted to get some suggestions on the best way to attack a problem.
I'm writing an adventure-type of game (no, not for a class :-) and wanted
to know the quickest way to add up their total hit points. The fact is
stored like:
    monster(orc,4).
where the latter is the number of hit points. What I want to do is add up a
group of them and get the total hit points for an attack party. For
example, it might be:
    monster(orc,4). monster(kobold,5). monster(goblin,8).
and I want to add them up.

Thanks...
   -Bert

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Re: Question about adding

#1598

Author: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 06:14

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In article <718322659.0@nwark.FidoNet>, Bert.Edens@f1160.n391.z1.FidoNet.Org (Bert Edens) writes:
>     monster(orc,4).
> where the latter is the number of hit points. What I want to do is add up a
> group of them and get the total hit points for an attack party. For
> example, it might be:
>     monster(orc,4). monster(kobold,5). monster(goblin,8).
> and I want to add them up.

You need a way to represent what is in the attack party.
For argument's sake, let's assume that a hit party is represented by
a list of HowMany*MonsterType pairs, e.g. [2*goblin,3*orc].

attack_party_hit_points(Monsters, HitPoints) :-
	attack_party_hit_point_loop(Monsters, 0, HitPoints).

attack_party_hit_point_loop([], HP, HP).
attack_party_hit_point_loop([K*M|KMs], HP0, HP) :-
	monster(M, H),
	HP1 is HP0 + K*H,
	attack_party_hit_point_loop(KMs, HP1, HP).

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