[ragel-users] Re: Am I misinterpreting the purpose of fbreak?

[Andrei Polushin]

Adrian Thurston wrote:
> What you could do is queue up actions and then embed the break action [...]

I guess the same goal can be achieved *without the queue*. One can use
additional states: the machine goes to the next "fake" state,
generates output event, but does not advance to the next character:

action StartDocument { result = "StartDocument"; fbreak; }

main := any at StartDocument ............ ;

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Andrei Polushin