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dfa.rb

Class to create deterministic finite automata (DFA). Pass in the states, whether they are accept or start states, and a hash representing the transition function, and it returns an object that tests strings for whether they result in an accept state.

Example

   transition_hash = {
          "s1" => {"0" => "s1", "1" => "s2"},
          "s2" => {"0" => "s2", "1" => "s1"}
   }

   foo = DFA.new([State.new("s1", true, true), State.new("s2", false, false)], transition_hash)

This creates a DFA composed of two states (s1, and s2) where s1 is both the start state and the only accept state. The DFA's alphabet is {0,1} and 1's cause the state to change. This matches the language of strings of 0 and 1 where there are an even number of 1's.

   foo.accepts?("1010101") #=> true
   foo.accepts?("101010") #=> false
   foo.compute_final_state("1010101") #=> <struct State name="s1", is_start=true, is_accept=true>