Re: [Webmacro-devel] Function refactor

[Brian G. <br...@qu...>]

>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.

I like the idea of being able to put Function objects in the context, but I 
don't particularly like how it works now.

Instead of putFunction(), I like better the idea of putting Function 
objects into the context like variables:

   put("cos", new FunctionWrapper(mathObject, "cosine"));

and then, instead of having Context look up in this special function map, 
just look up the name in the context.  I don't really like that there are 
so many namespaces.

Then, global functions can work that way too -- they get faulted into the 
context the first time you use them.  The result is a flat namespace for 
variables, tools, functions, etc, and a general purpose "stuff-on-fault" 
mechanism for global hoosits.

Or is that too much magic?



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