Ron Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:32:51 -0500, James G Smith wrote: >>James G Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>The distribution is available on CPAN (soon -- has been uploaded) >>>and >>>at http://sourceforge.net/project/gestinanna/ >> >>Make that http://sourceforge.net/projects/gestinanna/ > >There are some state machine modules in CPAN already, under the >prefix DFA:: for Discrete Finite Automata. Do we really need a >separate prefix StateMachine:: for this?
Actually, state machines exist under DFA::, POE::, and a host of other specialized name spaces. >For the record, DFA was suggested to me when I asked for module name >suggestions, because it (DFA) was already in use when I wanted to >submit my module. StateMachine:: was the most recent (actually, only) suggestion made on the modules@ list outside of POE::, but POE:: doesn't fit the type of machine I need. If it's strictly a DFA, then it could go under the DFA:: namespace just as well, though NFA:: would be a more-encompassing namespace :/. It is potentially non-deterministic. http://search-beta.cpan.org/modlist/Control_Flow_Utilities http://search-beta.cpan.org/search?mode=all&query=state+machine (finds 2200+ entries) of which the following seem to be genuine state machines (from the first 500 results). Bio::Tools::StateMachine::AbstractStateMachine Bio::Tools::StateMachine::IOStateMachine CGI::MxScreen Decision::Markov DFA::Command DFA::Kleene DFA::Simple POE::NFA POE::Session Set::FA Wizard::State XML::SAX::Machines -- James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 979-862-3725 Texas A&M CIS Operating Systems Group, Unix
