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Re:Finite State Machines by klibertp on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:26AM (#26225552)
Function objects, including closures, can be serializable - they are in Erlang/Elixir. You can send a lambda/closure over to another node (on another machine) to execute. It's actually one of the basic building blocks of OTP.
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Re:Finite State Machines by user-the-name on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:19AM (#26226248)
I assume this only works if the functions are exactly the same. It would break between different versions?
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Re:Finite State Machines by rad_gruchalski on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:24PM (#26231503)
It depends. It’s possible to provide a mechanism to switch versions but as it very often is: there are dragons.
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