instruction_tree: Pass depth & output buffer as parameters #46
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The parameter here is not necessarily the root of the tree.
The depth is a transient property of where in the tree we happen to be generating code, so it should not be a persistent property of the class. Pass it explicitly.
From an efficiency point of view, repeatedly appending to an immutable string probably involves repeatedly copying the string. (Some languages have an optimisation where if `s` is the only reference to a string, then `s += "foo"` modifies `s` in place; I don't know if GDScript has that.) From a clarity perspective, it is strange for the output buffer to be an instance variable of the InstructionTree – it is a transient buffer used during a call to generate_text(). Replace it with a PackedStringArray, passed through the recursive calls, containing lines of code. Join it to produce the generated code as a whole.
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I think this is clearer than using instance variables, which persist beyond the call to generate_text, to store state which is transient to any given call to generate_text. It's also shorter!