This sounds to me like you're trying to re-implement object orientation.
I have no control over the big dictionaries. All I need to do is processing them in situ --- that is to say, go into each map and manipulate numbers. Parameter passing should be avoid whenever possible since involved number of items are huge.
It is basically like
exec 'statements' in d
but a function with local dictionary d would be best.
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