#15850: FiniteStateMachine: provide hook on_duplicate_transition
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       Reporter:  cheuberg           |        Owner:
           Type:  enhancement        |       Status:  needs_review
       Priority:  major              |    Milestone:  sage-6.2
      Component:  combinatorics      |   Resolution:
       Keywords:                     |    Merged in:
  finite_state_machine               |    Reviewers:  Daniel Krenn
        Authors:  Clemens            |  Work issues:
  Heuberger, Daniel Krenn            |       Commit:
Report Upstream:  N/A                |  12351e2a78fa8bf3b6487495499826eacdf9ebdb
         Branch:                     |     Stopgaps:
  u/cheuberg/fsm/on_duplicate_transition|
   Dependencies:  #15841, #15847,    |
  #15848                             |
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Changes (by cheuberg):

 * cc: slabbe (added)


Comment:

 In [http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15078#comment:19 #15078, comment 19],
 slabbe recommended having distinct classes {{{FiniteStateMachine}}},
 {{{Transducer}}}, {{{Automaton}}}.

 Therefore, I think it to be appropriate to briefly explain why I used a
 hook in this instance instead of having a new class {{{MarkovChain}}}:

 - first, I think that it gives us more flexibility to customize the
 behaviour slightly
 - second, having a class {{{MarkovChain}}} would probably require us to
 check whether the sum of the input weights of the transitions leaving a
 state adds up to 1. This would be quite cumbersome and inefficient. This
 checking is dealt with in #15961 (depending on this ticket).

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