Volity::Player 0.6.5

Volity::Player is a Perl module for Volity players, from a referees perspective.

An object of this class represents a Volity player present at a table. The referee creates one of these objects for every player who comes to that refs table. The player might not actually play the game (i.e. sit in a seat), but is nonetheless recognized by the referee as a potential game player and table presence.

In certain circumstances a ref may choose to keep an object for a given player persistent, even after that player leaves the table, while other times the players departure results in the objects destruction. Generally, it just does the right thing.

USAGE

You should never need to create or destroy player objects yourself; the referee object takes care of that. However, there are a number of methods defined by Volity::Referee and Volity::Seat that return player objects, so you may find yourself interacting with them anyway.

Volity::Game subclasses refer to seats more often than to individual players, since most game interaction takes place at the seat level.