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From: Markus E L
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote:

> In my view an abstract state machine has nothing to do with singletons. A
> state machine might be a singleton, per chance. But an *abstract* state
> machine is definitely a type that generalizes many concrete state machines.

No. It's one where the implementation is hidden and only the
interface/contract exposed.

-- Markus