Re: RFC: DFA::StateMachine

2004-12-15 Thread David E . Wheeler
On Dec 15, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: It seems to me that your code could be used to implement either a DFA or an NFA, so you might want to call it it an FSM. Algorithm::FSM, perhaps? Or maybe Decision::FSM?? I went with FSM::Rules. I think it's a good name, and falls in line, I

Re: RFC: DFA::StateMachine

2004-12-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Dec 15, 2004, at 2:17 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote: Ovid and I were getting fed up with the horrible DFA::Simple module, so I wrote a new module, DFA::StateMachine, to take its place in our work. Cool. But I'm no computer scientist, so I'm not even sure whether the name is right or if the module

RFC: DFA::StateMachine

2004-12-14 Thread David E . Wheeler
Hi All, Ovid and I were getting fed up with the horrible DFA::Simple module, so I wrote a new module, DFA::StateMachine, to take its place in our work. But I'm no computer scientist, so I'm not even sure whether the name is right or if the module functions the way a DFA state machine is