Re: [Webmacro-devel] Function refactor

[Eric B. R. <eb...@tc...>]

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 07:50  PM, Keats wrote:

> I'm busily refactoring the function stuff and I suddenly realized that  
> all I had to do was make FunctionCall implement Macro and everything  
> becomes a lot simpler.  The FunctionCall.eval() takes care of almost  
> everything, so Context.internalGet() becomes real simple.  See below.
>
> The only real function code left in Context is keeping track of local  
> functions.  I'm wondering if anybody even cares about local functions.  
>  They could be pretty powerful but maybe it's not worth it.  We'll  
> have to discuss this later.

By "local functions", you mean local to a Context, right?  I'd like to  
see this stay around.  The advantages of being able to add my own  
functions w/o editing wm.properties are many, imho.

eric

>
> I hope to test and commit by week's end ...
>
> Keats
>
> ====================================================
>
>     protected Object internalGet (Object name)
>     {
>         Object ret = _variables.get(name);
>         if (ret == null && !_variables.containsKey(name)){
>             // not found in context.  Check for auto-loading variable.
>             if (name instanceof String) {
>                 Object var =  
> _broker.getAutoContextVariable((String)name, this);
>                 if (var != null) {
>                     // auto-loading variable loaded.  Add to context.
>                     put(name, var);
>                     ret = var;
>                 }
>             }
>             else if (name instanceof FunctionCall)
>                 ret = name;
>             else
>                 ret = UNDEF;
>         }
>         return ret;
>     }
> ========================================
>
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