avoid recursive_replace() in block_creation.py
#16708
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Purpose:
It makes the code a bit more linear and avoids copying objects.
This is the only production use of
recursive_replace()
, and with this it could be turned into a test-only facility.My long term intention is to make these types (
FullBlock
and all its members, transitively) not be dataclasses, but instead native types. This poses a challenge with all the places we usereplace()
.recursive_replace()
is especially challenging to substitute.This is a small step towards reducing the use of
replace()
. One possibility might be to have these objects be mutable, to cover some of the existing use ofreplace()
, but not all.