Comments on: CSV Parsing with Erlang http://blogs.yellowfish.biz/2009/csv-parsing-with-erlang/ IT Consulting, Infrastructure, Software & Voip Phone Systems Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:28:11 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Praveen Ray http://blogs.yellowfish.biz/2009/csv-parsing-with-erlang/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Praveen Ray Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:55:56 +0000 http://blogs.yellowfish.biz/?p=320#comment-349 Felix, You're right about mutually recursive functions. Since OTP provides a fsm behavior, it's definitely little easier to build state machines using OTP. But for such simple machines, it's probably a good idea to do away with the OTP behavior altogether. Felix,
You’re right about mutually recursive functions. Since OTP provides a fsm behavior, it’s definitely little easier to build state machines using OTP. But for such simple machines, it’s probably a good idea to do away with the OTP behavior altogether.

]]> By: Felix http://blogs.yellowfish.biz/2009/csv-parsing-with-erlang/comment-page-1/#comment-347 Felix Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:24:23 +0000 http://blogs.yellowfish.biz/?p=320#comment-347 What's the point of using a generic server for parsing data, wouldn't a recursive solution suffice for that? It is very easy to simulate a state machine using mutually recursive functions like this (a and b are states): a(S) -> ...; a(S) -> ... b(NewS). b(S) -> ... a(NewS). What’s the point of using a generic server for parsing data,
wouldn’t a recursive solution suffice for that? It is very easy to simulate a state machine using mutually recursive functions like this (a and b are states):

a(S) ->
…;
a(S) ->
…
b(NewS).

b(S) ->
…
a(NewS).

]]> By: Alicia Dambrose http://blogs.yellowfish.biz/2009/csv-parsing-with-erlang/comment-page-1/#comment-345 Alicia Dambrose Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:16:23 +0000 http://blogs.yellowfish.biz/?p=320#comment-345 I have seen some crappy posts but this one really impresses me. Good work. I have seen some crappy posts but this one really impresses me. Good work.

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