Big state machines

[Corrado Santoro]

Joel Reymont wrote:
> I'm implementing my poker logic as a gen_fsm behavior. I'm finding that
> my FSM is getting a bit unwieldy, though, what with all the tests I have
> to write for different state transitions, etc. 
> 
> I'm wondering if there's an idiomatic way of splitting big FSMs into
> smaller chunks. Should I move the processing code into different modules
> and leave just invocations in the FSM callback module? 
The eXAT agent programming platform that I've written allows agent 
behaviours to be programmed by means of hierarchical FSMs, also using 
virtual inheritance.

You may take a loot at

http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto/exat/

The version that can be downloaded is old, but please contact me for the 
new release, if you are interested.

--Corrado

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