Show food lifetime in status bar

[Debilski]

[otizonaizit]

I am afraid that if we make this visible in the GUI people will rightfully ask if this is also accessible from the bot API. At the moment this is not the case. We could of course expose it. Right now we have a list bot.shaded_food. This could become a dictionary, where the keys are the coordinates and the values the age of the food as found in food_age, or maybe better as a countdown to relocation? Not sure it is worth the trouble, but why not?

[Debilski]

new_lifetime = Counter(bot.shaded_food)
for k, v in state['food_lifetime'].items():
    new_lifetime[k] + v
state['food_lifetime'] = new_lifetime

Everyone can easily write it themselves and it spares us from having to explain the exact meaning of v.

[otizonaizit]

Sure sure, "easily" ;) Let's make a bet: I bet that they'll mess it up :)

Counter: come on, only you (and me) ever use Counter for anything :)

[Debilski]

I mean the counter isn’t really needed here, it just saves a line or so.

Sure sure, "easily" ;) Let's make a bet: I bet that they'll mess it up :)

Not sure I would want to be that they don’t mess it up. But hey, they want to squat. Not me. They better take care of their own business then. ;)

We could even argue that bot.shaded_food is not needed, given that they only see it for their own food and could also calculate it themselves from the food distance, so they should be very happy with our API for having this bonus attribute. :)