Plug and Play Contracts

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can any Ethereum Dev answer if there's a ERC or even an EIP to define a way in which you can have a Smart Contract to be plug-and-play'd into another Smart Contract? I'm trying to come up with something, but don't want to reinvent the wheel here.

To be more clear, what I'm planning to do is to create a dynamic and mutable mapping of address(SC)/functions/parameters allowing any function of any SC to be called from the one who implements this standard, thus, plug and play.

Shawn Tabrizi · Answer

It seems like you are trying to build a library. See here: Solidity > Libraries.

Libraries are similar to contracts, but their purpose is that they are
  deployed only once at a specific address and their code is reused
  using the DELEGATECALL (CALLCODE until Homestead) feature of the EVM.
  This means that if library functions are called, their code is
  executed in the context of the calling contract, i.e. this points to
  the calling contract, and especially the storage from the calling
  contract can be accessed.

Otherwise you might be thinking about inheritance: Solidity > Inheritance

When a contract inherits from multiple contracts, only a single
  contract is created on the blockchain, and the code from all the base
  contracts is copied into the created contract.

Let me know if this helps.

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