I recommend checking out the material about Subtext[1] for elaborations on tabular programming. Often in practical systems an enumeration of finite state is a t

I recommend checking out the material about Subtext[1] for elaborations on tabular programming. Often in practical systems an enumeration of finite state is a tool to "squash" very large decision tables into a more comprehensible pattern. But having the decision table aids in discovery of just how many states you have to deal with. [1] http://www.subtext-lang.org/ http://www.subtext-lang.org/