extending standard behaviours

[Chris Pressey]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 06:48:27 -0400
Vance Shipley <vances@REDACTED> wrote:

> 
> What would be the best way to extend standard behaviours?
> 

My initial feeling would be: create another behaviour.

Writing a module which conforms to a behaviour, is a case of the
'specialization' pattern.  There's nothing saying that this module can't
be, itself, a behaviour as well, and offhand that sounds like what you
have, here.

> For example I have created a module using the gen_fsm
> behaviour which implements a state machine.  There are a 
> number of different versions of this, with different numbers
> of states.  The mandatory callbacks are common between all
> versions (e.g. handle_event, handle_info, init, etc.).
> 
> 	-Vance
> 
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Chris