Automated generation of different script versions

At a computer system including a script pre-processor, a method for restructuring a script to assist in implementing diagnostic functionality, the method comprising:

• an act of receiving a script, the script having a hierarchy of programming elements that provides context for elements within the script relative to one another, the script including one or more anonymous functions each including one or more script instructions;
• an act of receiving an indication that a version of the script that implements diagnostic functionality is to be created;
• in response to the received indication automatically performing:
• an act of parsing the script to identify any anonymous functions;
• and
• for each identified anonymous function:
• an act of automatically determining the context of the anonymous function within the script;
• an act of using the context to infer a global identifier for the anonymous function;
• and
• an act of restructuring the script to associate the constructed global identifier with the anonymous function such that the identified anonymous function is subsequently identifiable through reference to the constructed identifier;
• and
• an act of storing the restructured script so that the restructured script can be executed when a version of the script including the diagnostic functionality is requested.

A computer system, including:

• one or more processors;
• system memory;
• one or more physical storage media have stored therein computer-executable instructions representing a script pre-processor for processing pre-processor directives, the script pre-processor including a parser, an instruction inference module, and an identifier construction module,
• the parser configured to:
• receiving a script, the script having comments that include descriptive data from which script instructions for implementing specified further functionality can be inferred and the script having a hierarchy of programming elements that provides context for elements within the script relative to one another
• parsing comments included in the script to access descriptive data from which script instructions for implementing specified further functionality can be inferred;
• and
• parse the script to identify any anonymous functions;
• the instruction inference module configured to:
• infer additional script instructions for implementing further specific functionality based on accessed descriptive data;
• and
• inserting the additional script instructions into appropriate locations within a received script to modify the script to implement the specified further functionality;
• the identifier construction module configured to:
• determine the context of anonymous functions within the received script;
• use the context to infer global identifiers for the anonymous functions;
• and
• restructure the script to associate the constructed identifiers with the anonymous functions such that the identified anonymous functions are subsequently identifiable through reference to the constructed identifiers;
• and
• the script pre-processor configured to:
• store the modified and restructured scripts so that the modified and restructured scripts can be executed when a version of the script including the specified further functionality is requested.