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I agree with Michael that turning seq from a DFA into an arbitrary procedural language interpreter is not a good thing.

On Apr 6, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Laznovsky, Michael wrote:

Hi- while this might be fairly easy to do given the way seq does its
internal bookkeeping, seems to me it would muck up the relatively clean
DFA state-machine model we have now. I've handled cases like you describe
(e.g. an "ABORT" button that allows interrupting a long series of states)
by adding extra intermediate states, as in:

    state A
    {
        entry {
            flag = OK;
        }
        when (<event>) {
            if (trouble) flag = BUBU;
        } state A_check
    }

state A_check
{
when (flag == BUBU) { /* uh oh! */
} state A_abort
when () {
} state B /* next state */
}

The "out-of-order" transitions I mentioned referred to a future debugging
environment, where it might be useful to interactively force a transition
to an arbitrary state.

Looks like I could use some instruction on the value and use
of a DFA.  All my SNL programs look like this:

state monitor {
   when (A && B && C && D && E) {
       ...
   } state action1
   when (A && B && C && D && !E) {
       ...
   } state action2
}

Ok, I'm exaggerating, but only a little.  Nevertheless, it's true
that MOST of the things I need to to in EPICS that can't easily be
done in a database end up looking like the above.  Maybe someone
knowledgeable could give a short course in how things really should
be done in SNL.

--
Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.

References:

RE: snc/seq enhancements ... local-variable access Laznovsky, Michael

Re: snc/seq enhancements ... local-variable access Eric Norum

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