Re: Trying to adhere to RTC design pattern, but I'm not actually running to completion

From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: 29 Dec 2003 03:22:39 GMT

CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have no idea what esoteric principles you two are attempting to
> use, but this toast problem via state machine requires a set of
> states:
[...]

Exactly. A *finite* set, to point right at the problem. The original
posting said that wouldn't do, in the case at hand --- he wanted to be
able to run essentially infinite loops inside a state machine's
actions, which would explode to an infinite number of states under the
scheme you outlined.

The OP wants to actually interrupt a single state (or rather the
time-consuming procedure that implements the transition from one state
to some other), yet still claim that all actions always run to
completion. Sounds very much like trying to both have the cake and
eat it, to me. 

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.