On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:05:24PM -0800, Scott Chapman wrote:

To summarise your summary:

You want Embperl to implement an Execution state machine for you.

I've just implemented a largish, completely forms based site using
just that code snippet I posted earlier for progression. There were a
few extra things for moving backwards and jumping around the execution
tree but thats was basically it.

I agree completely with you that it would be nice to be able to
conceptually program like you wish .... but with a small wrapper in
place you can do it yourself and not have to wait for Gerald to muck
around in Embperl internals to get the same thing :)

> I posted a very similar question on the ModPerl list and someone 
> else summarized my request very nicely. This may help:  
> 
> > On 15 Nov 2001, at 15:33, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> > 
> > The original e-mail was confusing, but I think what he's after is not
> > so much the ability to call pages as subs but rather the ability to
> > abstract away the fact that a sub might actually involve multiple user
> > interactions (present a form, get a response, present another form,
> > etc.) with breaks in actual execution.  In other words, he wants to
> > think of program execution in terms of a linear user session (as you
> > would with a GUI app) rather than a series of separate requests. 

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