Re: [boost] Re: Finite state machine requirements

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-05 18:27:54

From: "Gustavo Guerra" <gustavobt_at_[hidden]>

> I'm interested. I use state machines many times. Most of the time I use
> external generators, or do it by hand just with some function pointer
table
> when it's simple enough. Would like to have a better alternative, though,
> but the state machines are always some tiny peice of the rest of the
> projects, so I usually don't have time to experiment. I would very
> interested in a library that did the most possible work at compile-time.
>
> I did a brief look at you proposal (pity it doesn't have docs), and OMHO
it
> still feels like we have to do much tedious work. And I also think the
state
> machine becames to spread out and it's dificult to look at the resulting
> final code and recognize the original statemachine as a whole. But it's
much
> better than anything else I've seen so for, so keep up the good work.

Did you look at what Aleksey did in the MPL paper
http://www.mywikinet.com/mpl/paper/mpl_paper.html#example?

Hmm, it looks like he never gives the definition of the state_machine<>
template. Aleksey?

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