Well, I guess states need to be captured somewhere somehow in order for any computer programs to function. The point of this library is to give a more declarati

Well, I guess states need to be captured somewhere somehow in order for any computer programs to function. The point of this library is to give a more declarative way of doing it, rather than having them dispersed into different parts of asynchronous handling logic. It is one thing to say that a protocol is designed to be stateless, it is quite another to say a particular programming technique is so. If anything, functional programming leads to programming style that concerns less with how a particular state leads to another, and more with what transitions we want to make.