Support arbitrary starting states for StateMachine #1458
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While
StateMachine
devices can support arbitrary state names for their progression, they currently must usestart
as their initial state.This PR allows State Machines to define any of their states to use as the initial state, with
start
as the default value. As a result, there should be no breaking change for existing machines that do not specifystarting_state:
.Tests included!