Re: [boost] [msm] Nested submachines and explicit state entry

Subject: Re: [boost] [msm] Nested submachines and explicit state entry
From: Christophe Henry (christophe.j.henry_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-09 13:36:46

>> There are several reasons to this and it took me a while to figure out
>> what was happening.
>> The first one is that there are 2 errors in the example:
>> RunningStateMachine::Inner1::direct<RunningStateMachine_::Inner1_> should be:
>> RunningStateMachine::direct<RunningStateMachine_::Inner1>
>>
>> As you are directly entering RunningStateMachine, not Inner1.
>
>actually I have made 2 mistakes :). One above the second is that I used Inner1_
>which is a frontend instead of Inner1 caused that the on initial transition
>is getting triggered after entry of Inner1

Ah yes I forgot that I corrected that one too.

>I found it even strange that it compiles when the frontend of and
>inner state machine is used in the outer state machine transition
>table.

This surprises me a little because I tried with g++ 4.4 to replace in
the corrected example Inner1 by Inner1_ in SM1's table and the
compiler correctly complained. What did you do?