-Jumping to a function as opposed to calling a function
When a function is jumped to, it inherits the variables in the caller’s local
namespace and is free to modify them or add new local variables, unlike a
normal function call, wherein the caller’s namespace is inaccesible. At
present, the only way I know of to accomplish this is to bundle all variables
in the caller method’s namespace as properties of the method’s instance and
have the callee method modify those properties. Though it is easier to read
code written this way, it resulted in a great deal of redundancy in the code I
was writing. The task I was attempting to accomplish was approximately this:
class Verb:
def __init__(self, parameters):
self.parameters = parameters
def conjugate(self):
#Using the parameters, chose an appropriate list of morphemes
to prefix and suffix to the verb
self.morphemelist = morphemelist
for morpheme in self.morphemelist:
morpheme.mutate()
returnstring = ‘'
for morpheme in self.morphemelist:
returnstring = returnstring + morpheme.form
returnstring = returnstring
class Morpheme:
def __init__(self, verb, form, precedingmorpheme, succeedingmorpheme):
self.verb = verb
self.form = form
self.precedingmorpheme = precedingmorpheme
self.succeedingmorpheme = succeedingmorpheme
def mutate(self):
#Using the verb’s parameters and the type and form of the
preceding and succeeding morpheme, mutate this morpheme’s form so that
#a correct verb form is produced
self.form = newform
class Ban(Morpheme):
def __init__(self, verb, form):
super().__init__(verb, ‘ban’)
def mutate(self):
#This morpheme has mutation logic unique to itself but with
many similarities to the default morpheme’s mutation logic
self.form = newform
Each subclass of Morpheme has its own slightly different mutate method. Some
subclasses of Morpheme needed to access and manipulate a great deal of
information about the verb and their surroundings, while other subclasses’
mutate methods differed little from the default. Most of the variables
manipulated by the mutate method are not used by any other methods of class
Morpheme and thus should not be made properties of the attached instance. What
I wish I were able to do is write many little methods that modify the same set
of local variables and compose them together into a complete mutate method.
This would be effectively equivalent to having the “jump to function” calls be
replaced with the text in the function’s body, like a C language
macrosubstitution, but without using anything like preprocessor directives.
Let foo(a, b) be the syntax to call foo(a, b), and foo(a, b)% be the syntax to
jump to foo(a, b)
def foo(a):
return a + c
def bar(a, c):
return foo(a)
def bazz(a, c):
return foo(a)%
c = 5
call = bar(1, 3)
jump = bazz(1, 3)
After execution, call in the above code would be 6 and jump in the above code
would be 4.
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