Hmm... poe.perl.org appears to be down right now. Bummer.
- MW
-----Original Message-----
From: Rocco Caputo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 8:39 PM
To: Peter Scott; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wilkinson, Mike
Subject: RE: Server pinging
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:38:53 -0700, Wilkinson, Mike wrote:
>Actually, I've been reading this thread with interest as well. I'm
>attempting to do something similar with POE. The biggest problem for me is
>that I'm from an EE background, where state machines are defined more by
the
>transitions than what a state contains, and this appears to be more the
>other way around.
There seem to be two flavors of state machine: ones that produce output
for each transition (http://hissa.nist.gov/dads/HTML/mealyMachine.html)
and ones that do the same for each state
(http://hissa.nist.gov/dads/HTML/mooreMachine.html).
Have you looked at POE::NFA? It's an imperfect attempt at a classical
nondeterministic state machine. At its worst, it shows that POE::Kernel
can drive different kinds of state machines.
-- Rocco Caputo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / poe.perl.org / poe.sourceforge.net
