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Kenny Tilton  
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 More options Feb 1 2004, 12:21 pm
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From: Kenny Tilton <ktil...@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 17:18:38 GMT
Local: Sun, Feb 1 2004 12:18 pm
Subject: Re: State machine representation
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Matthew Danish wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:07:01AM +0000, Kenny Tilton wrote:

>>That's what I have done with some simple machines. Symbols definitely,
>>for readability, plus numbers would not work with CASE.

> Not true; numbers do work with CASE, since CASE compares as if with EQL.

Oops. I forgot that the problem is if the key is not a literal since the
key is not evaluated, so if the OP wanted to use defconstant to set up
symbolic forms for the states (using literals would be madness) then
they would have to use #.FSM-INITIAL and #.FSM-BUILDING-INTEGER.

kt

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