T flip flop VHDL code

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I am learning VHDL and I ran into the following code:

Entity fft is 
  port (t, r: in bit; q: out bit);
End  entity;

Architecture fft_df of fft is
signal state: bit :='0';

Begin

state <='0' when r='1' else
         not state when t='0' and t'event else
         state;

q<=state;

End;

Well, my doubt is about what this code does and if or not this is a behavioral or dataflow description of a T flip flop with reset. And than, which is the meaning of not state when t='0' and t'event? (I suppose the T flip flop works on falling edge).

Thanks to all.

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JHBonarius On BEST ANSWER

I'm missing the clock input. A T-flipflop (with asynchronous reset) would actually be described by

entity tff is 
    port (clk, reset, t: in bit; q: out bit);
end entity;

architecture rtl of tff is begin
    q <= '0' when reset = '1' else
        not q when rising_egde(clk) and t = '1';
end;

Or more commonly written as:

architecture rtl of tff is begin
    tff_proc : process(clk, reset) begin
        if reset = '1' then
            q <= '0';
        elsif rising_egde(clk) then
            if t = '1' then
                q <= not q;
            end if;
        end if;
    end process;
end;

p.s. reading an output requires compiling in VHDL-2008 mode.