Lex  wrote:
>Blake, the simple answer is to use a separate class per state.  Then
>instead of a case statement, you can send messages to the current state
>object and ask it to Do The Right Thing.  Since each state has a
>different class, each one can have a separate doTheRightThing method,
>and the normal OO method-binding machinery will hook up the
>doTheRightThing *request* with the appropriate *response*.
>

Sounds way too OO for me       :^)
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