[Tutor] what's a state machine?

[R. Alan Monroe]

> The secret is to model the machine as a big table:

> Current State|Event|Action|Next State

> You then define numeric values(or hash keys) for each state
> and each event, load pointers/rferences to functions into
> the action column

Does that work when you have multiple concurrent states, like
simultaneouly Walking and ChewingGum at the same time?

Alan