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    <p>I don't think such support exists in current languages. I think what I want to do could be solved by a "workflow engine". But the problem I have with workflow's is generally they are:</p> <ol> <li>Declarative/verbose and I find a imperative style much more succinct</li> <li>Heavyweight, I'll have a lot of simple though diverse little state machines</li> </ol> <p>I've investigated <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/321827/serializing-anonymous-delegates-in-c">serializing iterators in C#</a> but that doesn't get me exactly where I want to be. I'm current looking at putting together a DSL in <a href="http://boo.codehaus.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Boo</a> but not sure if I'll be able to get coroutine-like behaviour into Boo, and be able to serialize it as well. </p> <h2>Example</h2> <p>Here is limited fictional example of what I'd like to do. The main issue is that at any point in a routine you may need to get user input. The time between inputs could be very long so the state of service will need to be serialized to disk. </p> <pre><code> def RunMachine(user) var lever = user.ChooseLever() lever.Pull() var device = CreateDevice(user) machine.Add(device) machine.Run() def CreateDevice(user) var color = user.ChooseColor() var shape = user.ChooseShape() return Device(color, shape) </code></pre> <h1>Update</h1> <p>I have a working "engine" in CPython. It piggy-backs on the iterator/yield support in python. So code looks like this:</p> <pre><code>def escape(self, you): roll = yield self.game.rollDice(you) if roll &lt; 5: self.caughtAction(you) </code></pre> <p>Where <code>rollDice</code> can be interrupted. with some user action. <strong>CPython</strong> however doesn't serialize iterators. </p> <p>Since the whole state of the game can be defined as a sequence of commands, I serialize the game state up to the point at where a coroutine started then the remaining list of commands. So to save/restore looks like this:</p> <pre><code>def dumpGameState(game): if gameState.partialState: return pickle.dumps({ 'partialState': game.partialState, 'partialInputs': game.partialInputs }) return pickle.dumps(game) def loadGameState(data): state = pickle.loads(data) if state.__class__ is Game: return state r = pickle.loads(state['partialState']) for input in state['partialInputs']: game.execute(**input) return game </code></pre> <h2>Current Investigations</h2> <p>I still find this unsatisfactory. As I end up having to use 'yield' on almost every method. I'd rather not have to specifically decorate a method. Also it quite fails at serialization. </p> <p>Currently I'm investigating going a functional route, as functional languages seem to have better support for metaprogramming/DSL creation. Currently looking at</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming/Computation_Expressions#Defining_Computation_Expressions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">F# Computational Expressions</a></li> <li>Haskell</li> </ul> <p>I'm hopeful that with strong enough metaprogramming facilities I can automate the state storage mechanism. Also, if I go the F# route, I'm pretty sure I can fall back on the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/321827/serializing-anonymous-delegates-in-c">"technique"/(hack)</a> I used to serialize iterators.</p>
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