[erlang-questions] Difference between gen_server and gen_fsm

[Ulf Wiger]

I agree - gen_fsm can lead to cleaner code, and this might be
significant esp in state machines with many states.

BR,
Ulf W

2007/10/11, Jack Orenstein <jao@REDACTED>:
> I'm going through the OTP design principles book and think that I am
> missing the point of gen_fsm. The difference between gen_fsm and
> gen_server seems to be a small syntactic one. Instead of handle_call
> handling each kind of request, there is a function per FSM state. Not
> having used gen_fsm yet, it seems that gen_fsm would lead to cleaner
> code. But the two behaviors are so similar, I feel that I am either
> missing the point of gen_fsm, or completely missing some aspect of
> its behavior. Can someone please explain the distinction?
>
> Jack Orenstein
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