[ragel-users] [RFC] A Complete Description of Using Ragel State Charts

[Adrian Thurston]

Hi Zed,

Nice work, an excellent article! Not much has been written about state
charts in Ragel and it fills the gap nicely. I have a couple comments.

In section "Actions in Ragel" the details are a bit off.

"@!error" access nonfinal states and embeds an error handler
"$!error" access all states

Though in your example they have the same effect.

"@" on it's own accesses transitions which move into a final state.

In section "Generating the Code"

The only code style supported with Java right now is the plain table based
(-T0). The lack of goto statements in Java makes porting to Java more
work.

Cheers,
 Adrian


>
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I had such a hard time explaining how cool the Ragel state chart stuff is
> that I finally broke down and wrote some very detailed instructions and
> discussions about them:
>
> http://www.zedshaw.com/tips/ragel_state_charts.html
>
> Please take a look and give me any comments you have.  I'm using this
> style of state machine more and more in my code so I'd like to get a good
> grip on explaining it to folks.
>
> Have a good Christmas (if you celebrate it).
>
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