[ragel-users] Re: renaming the ">" operator

[Adrian Thurston]

I think it's already mentioned in the description of ">". Except I speak about "bypassing" the machine in case the start state is final. 

Adrian
-----Original Message-----
From: "Carlos Antunes" <cmantunes at gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:27:59 
To:ragel-users at googlegroups.com
Subject: [ragel-users] Re: renaming the ">" operator



On 7/20/07, Adrian Thurston <thurston at cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
>
> Since it is now closer to being symmetrical with the finishing transition operator
> it should be named "starting".
>

Yeap, make sense.

>
> ">" - starting a machine - transitions leaving the start state
>

I guess you could include a note in the docs mentioning that if the
start and final states are one and the same, ">" won't apply, maybe?

Carlos

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