Simple variations on state machines in Clojure

unsorted — cgrand, 3 March 2009 @ 15 h 00 min

Given a transition function that takes the current state and an input value as arguments then (reduce transition-fn initial-state input) returns the final state.

If you are interested in intermediate states, you can use clojure.contrib.seq-utils/reductions instead of reduce.

If you want an asynchronous state machine, you can use an agent:

(def agt (agent initial-state))
;then each time you get an input-value:
(send agt transition-fn input-value)

If you add a watch to the agent, you can react to state transitions.

1 Comment »

  1. I like it!
    Alan

    Comment by Alan Thompson — 5 November 2015 @ 1 h 05 min

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