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golergka on Dec 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The World of Statecharts

I thought that hierarchical state machine is a pretty standard programming pattern, but I've never seen the name "statechart" before. Is it the same thing, or are there any differences that I didn't notice?

davidkpiano on Dec 24, 2019 [–]

It's not exactly the same. Statecharts have more "features" than just hierarchical states:

- Parallel (orthogonal) states - History (shallow, deep) states - Entry, exit, transition actions - Delays - "Throughout" actions (activities) - Etc.

Check out the original paper: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc/2005_2006/reso...

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