Hi
( 01.05.10 23:00 -0500 ) Joel Gwynn:
> Can anyone point me to some simple resources on
> understanding/implementing state machines in Perl/SQL?
Well, I don't know about the SQL part, but POE is one big state machine.
I'd take a look at it and see if it can be applied to your needs.
> I'm working on an ecommerce site and getting sick of all the standard
> kludgy redundant code for maintaining state, session ID's etc. I keep
> hearing that there are these things called "state machines" which will
> auto-magically track all these variables.
Dude- sober up! You've got to do that kind of book keeping with HTTP.
State machines are for something quite different than keeping the
'state' of an HTTP session.
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