02:18 <taniwha> SilverFox: needs to be instance, not static

02:18 <taniwha> (afaik)

02:19 <SilverFox> yeah, which kinda sucks

02:23 <SilverFox> this totes isn't about ksp, but whatevs, yall can still help. I am modelling a heart at a basic level right now, and the amount of blood in comes from the veins, and the amount out is pushed through the aorta, what would be a good method of getting the blood_volume coming out from the heart, from the aorta's perspective? just like, Heart.output kind of deal with output being a static variable?

02:25 <taniwha> well, one would hope that Heart.output == Heart.input, otherwise you have a leak somewhere

02:25 <SilverFox> the aorta doesn't care about heart input, only heart output

02:25 <SilverFox> the right atrium is concerned about the input

02:25 <taniwha> wrong

02:26 <taniwha> /both/ sides of the heart do input

02:26 <taniwha> one pumps to the body, the other to the lungs

02:26 <SilverFox> I'm aware

02:26 <SilverFox> however the lungs don't exist yet

02:26 <taniwha> it's upper that does input and lower that does output

02:26 <SilverFox> I'm working my way up

02:27 <SilverFox> not tryna kill myself with feature creep and all that jazz

02:27 <SilverFox> heart has blood go in, heart has blood go out

02:27 <SilverFox> I need it to do that first

02:27 <taniwha> anyway, amount pumped per beat is simply volfull-volempty

02:27 <SilverFox> that's not what I'm asking

02:28 <SilverFox> what I'm asking is for a good coding practice for getting the variable for the output, from the aorta's perspective

02:28 <SilverFox> so im in the class of Aorta, rather than Heart

02:28 <taniwha> from the size of the aorta, of course

02:28 <taniwha> er, no, from the heart

02:28 <SilverFox> coding practice, not biology

02:29 <taniwha> you really don't get it, do you?

02:29 <SilverFox> maybe you don't get what I'm saying

02:29 <taniwha> the whole point of OO programming is to model what's there (in this case, biology)

02:29 <SilverFox> and there's good and bad programming, right?

02:29 <SilverFox> I'm trying to avoid bad programming practices

02:30 <SilverFox> so I'm curious what is the best practice to use to poll the input to a thing, from another thing

02:30 <taniwha> and by plugging your ears and saying "nonono", you're jumping head first into them

02:30 <SilverFox> should I update it from the heart, or from the aorta polling the heart's class?

02:31 <SilverFox> I could do it either way, but one is probably more correct than the other

02:32 <taniwha> I'd say from the heart: heart pumps blood into things, things direct blood to other things, other things direct blood back to heart

02:32 <taniwha> thus all things (heart is just a thing) do only output

02:33 <SilverFox> either in Aorta class I could be like, "input = Heart.output" or in the heart's class "method UpdateAorta(){Aorta.input = output;}"

02:33 <SilverFox> that kinda deal

02:36 <SilverFox> if I did it within the Aorta class, that would mean I could do updates on the Aorta code within having to change the heart code, right? Which sounds like a good thing

02:38 <SilverFox> this is sorta like, do I follow the train forwards or backwards