That's useful, thanks. Also thanks for this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134834 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134834 It's a wonderfully useful s

That's useful, thanks. Also thanks for this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134834 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134834 It's a wonderfully useful statement, and gets at what I was trying to get at much better than I could. I stand by SMC being a better fit for simple finite state machines (eg: the kind best specified using state charts); typical uses I've put SMC towards are for ensuring consistency of internal state in complicated UI elements and similar tasks...for which there's no real 'regular language' that needs parsing (or, at least: no real gain to be had in setting up a regular language of input-events when state charts will do). I'm guessing you're the thurston behind ragel: thank you for making ragel, for making it available, and for making it so well; it is an extremely high-quality piece of work.