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Is there any way to call a function & a subroutine dynamically. I have a function called copyStackFunction. It has four subroutines: copyStack, pasteStack, removeStack & clearStack. So the function is created and the subroutines are set. Can't I just do something similar to this?

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Dynamically Calling a Function

If you have 4 subroutines inside a function, I would consider making them separate functions.

yeah

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I was actually looking for something more along these lines. I need it to be a single function (so that it can be called from a library). Thanks for the help though.

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You don't need gosubs in your function:

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Your reasoning seems flawed in that function library scripts can have any number of functions. Perhaps I am misunderstanding?
If a script explicitly calls mathFunction_add() and it has not already been defined, AutoHotkey will attempt to #include mathFunction_add.ahk, and when that fails, mathFunction.ahk (based on the placement of the first underscore). However, if these sub-functions are only ever called by mathFunction itself, it really doesn't matter what they're named.
You don't need Ifs if you have Gosubs. Do you have a reason for suggesting one method over the other?

No not really, was just easier (for me that is) to incorporate in the already posted code. Not all my answers are correct or make sense.

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I wanted to keep it all in one .ahk file for reasons that are not really pertinent now. I could do it one way or the other I suppose. My only concern is that the real purpose of the function is to copy variables and they need to be transferred between one another. I'm not sure if that would be made more difficult.


Well, it's not better or worse, but it does provide a different set of options. That's always good.

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Is that a problem? As I said, if a script calls mathFunction_add() and mathFunction_add.ahk does not exist, mathFunction.ahk will be #included.
I don't see why it would, but I'm not sure what you're doing. I suppose the main issues would be if you needed to share static variables or arrays of local variables. In that case you may need to use subroutines within a single function. Goto might improve readability by allowing the value to be returned directly: