🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Apr 9, 2020 04:02 AM UTC:
After thinking about it, I think it makes more sense to assign constants to the names used in the code than it does to assign them to aliases. The alias can be calculated after the real name is returned by const. This allows the same alias to be used for a piece with different functions or subroutines for each side, such as Pawn as an alias for both White_Pawn and Black_Pawn. The way it is currently coded is suited only for using different aliases for different versions of the same piece definition, such as Minister and Elephant for Chinese_Elephant. But this is a bad example, because I have separate functions for the Elephant on each side anyway. So, I think there is more call for using one alias for multiple piece defintions than for using one piece definition with multiple aliases. I will update code and documentation tomorrow.
After thinking about it, I think it makes more sense to assign constants to the names used in the code than it does to assign them to aliases. The alias can be calculated after the real name is returned by const. This allows the same alias to be used for a piece with different functions or subroutines for each side, such as Pawn as an alias for both White_Pawn and Black_Pawn. The way it is currently coded is suited only for using different aliases for different versions of the same piece definition, such as Minister and Elephant for Chinese_Elephant. But this is a bad example, because I have separate functions for the Elephant on each side anyway. So, I think there is more call for using one alias for multiple piece defintions than for using one piece definition with multiple aliases. I will update code and documentation tomorrow.