Bill Roper (billroper) wrote,
Bill Roper
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Nearly Functional

I added another new helper class to the parser -- actually to the Parseable helper class. This will fetch a function call and any / all of its arguments and store them in the class, which allows the code to be much simpler and more consistent. So you call the getFunction() method on a Parseable object and, if the Parseable object is a function call, it passes back a FunctionInfo object with the correct Function enum member and an array of arguments to the function as Argument objects (which extend Parseable, so any of them can be parsed themselves).

Then I just pick off the Function enum and route the FunctionInfo object to the specific parser method that generates the correct byte codes for the function and its arguments.

Patching all of this in is a bit tedious, but I suspect it will greatly improve my debugging and testing later. :)
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