Received: by 10.224.207.197 with SMTP id fz5mr4106031qab.3.1348247878071; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:17:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.92.207 with SMTP id co15mr1068282vdb.9.1348247878042; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:17:58 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!l8no5014981qao.0!news-out.google.com!e10ni4282922qan.0!nntp.google.com!l8no5014976qao.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:17:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <505c9a93$0$6944$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 References: <505c9a93$0$6944$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <7ee7b8ea-9a68-409b-870f-77e33c8d5a1a@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: State transition From: Lew Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:17:58 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Lines: 25 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:18883 Ben Engbers wrote: > I have problems with my newsreader and can't reply directly but the last > question from Eric Sosman: > > How is the overall program structured? Would you like to > write `if(var.transitioned())' at points of interest, or > would you like to "register an observer" to be notified of > transition events, or would you like transition events to > be queued when they occur and handled later, or what? > > best meets my problem And the answer is ... ? For that matter, what is your problem? Since you knew you were posting absent the historic context of your post, why the frak did you omit it in your post? And the point of people asking you a question is to have you answer it. Or by "last question" did you mean that the answer is "what"? In which case you're screwing with us. -- Lew