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Transitions to multiple targets is not type safe as it could #20

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When a single target state is defined in the machine::transitions!() macro for a specific transition, machine will generate a method that return the exact struct of the target, making this transition type safe: When implementing that transition, returning the wrong state will fail compilation.

But when multiple target states are defined in the machine::transitions!() macro, machine generates a method that returns the main enum. This means that those transitions user implementations can be wrong and not match what the macro contains.

I think the only type-safe way of doing this would be to generate a different enum for transitions to multiple targets. This would unfortunately create some monster enums like StateOneOrStateTwoOrStateFourteenOrStateFifty but I don't see how else it could be done...

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