Adding Function Arguments with Data Storage

[Stevertus]

Originally created for mcscript by @WilliamRagstad here: https://github.com/Stevertus/mcscript/issues/23

There is a poly-fill trick for supporting arguments to functions using the new /data get storage [name] [path]. Format example:

mcscriptfunctions
|___ [function name]
        |___ [meta data]
        |___ [arguments]
               |___ [0]
               |___ [1]
               |___ ...
               |___ [N]

This will allow for real-time function calls if you create a macro that generates commands similar to the following code: (simulating using C#)

void callToFunction(string name, object[] args) {
   string r = "/data modify storage MCScriptFunctions " + name + ".arguments set value [";
   for(int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) r += args[i];
   r += "]\n"
   r += "/function " + name;
}

This could probably be optimized in many ways regarding to recursion etc (can be solved by storing arguments in temp variables), but this is the overall picture.

[scarzehd]

I think this will no longer be necessary with the new macro feature in 23w31a.

[WilliamRagstad]

This could still be useful, but not precisely in this way. The new macro system still requires a lot of glue code to achieve somewhat dynamic behavior. I recommend watching this video by Cloud Wolf.