Comparing oomoore to moore

The oomoore package accomplishes the same intent as the moore package. Here are some comparisons between the two packages.

• The moore package uses an object oriented approach based on namespace ensembles where oomoore uses TclOO. If you are not running Tcl 8.6, then you must use moore or you must use the TclOO package that back ports to 8.5.
• While the moore package works well, it is a rather over engineered solution. It is not as convenient to use, uses some rather heavy weight data structures in its implementation and also is more difficult to have data associated with the state machines. By using a state model as a superclass, oomoore can be used to give state behavior to any other TclOO class.

Regardless of which package you may use, the workflow suggestions still apply and oomoore makes it much easier to fit within a TclOO design.

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