package cs3500.connectn.model;

/**
 * A player in the game, White or Red. Player objects are used both to
 * represent the players themselves, as in reporting the winner, and to
 * represent the players' tokens in the game grid.
 */
public enum Player {
  White('W') {
    @Override public Player other() { return Red; }
  },

  Red('R') {
    @Override public Player other() { return White; }
  };

  /**
   * Returns a single-character representation of this player suitable for
   * printing.
   *
   * @return {@code 'R'} or {@code 'W'}
   */
  public char asChar() { return asChar; }
  private final char asChar;

  /**
   * Returns the other player.
   *
   * @return the other player
   */
  public abstract Player other();

  Player(char c) {
    asChar = c;
  }
}