Refactoring of Character class to add effect appliers and removers

rpg-docs/Model/Character/Utilities.js/pop.js

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+// turns dot notation strings into keys of root
+// argument formats:
+// 157, anything -> 157
+// "some.number", object -> object.some.number
+// "some.function", object -> object.some.function()
+// "some.function arg1 arg2", object -> object.some.function(arg1, arg2)
+pop = function(input, root){
+
+	if(typeof(input) === "string"){
+		//we need root for this part
+		if(root === undefined) return;
+
+		//this is a likely to fail if the string is malformed
+		try{
+			//split over spaces
+			var parts = input.split(" "); 
+
+			//for each word
+			for (var i = 0; i < parts.length; i++){
+				//split over dots
+				var str = parts[i].split(".");
+
+				//start at root
+				parts[i] = root;
+
+				//for each word between dots
+				for (var j = 0; j < str.length; j++){
+					parts[i] = parts[i][str[j]];
+				}
+			}
+
+			//pull the first word out, might be a function
+			var func = parts.splice(0, 1)[0];
+
+			//if it's a function, apply the arguments to it
+			if(_.isFunction(func)) return +func.apply(root, parts);
+
+			//if it's a number, return it
+			if(!isNaN(func)) return +func;
+		} catch (err) {
+			//TODO pokemon catch statement is bad
+			//"gotta catch em all"
+			console.log(err);
+			return;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return +input;
+}