[suggestion] anonymous array declaration, relax object syntax (JS/Json syntax)

Currently EE can evaluate anonymous object declarations:

x = new {a = 10, b = 20, c = 30}

property = value is enforced in method InitSimpleObjet (we should rename that to InitSimpleObject). First part of this suggestion is to relax this syntax and allow customization (preferably in the way customization of new works now) such as:

x = new {a: 10, b: 20, c: 30}

second part of this suggestion proposes support of JS-like anonymous array declaration (respecting c# new initialization pattern), which would internally map to List<object>:

x = new [10, 20, 30] // x[2] = 30

@codingseb do you think this would be possible to implement and of use?

[lofcz]

Great news @codingseb thanks for all the effort you are putting into this!

[codingseb]

I already published an alpha version for v.1.5 from branch MakeScriptEvaluationMoreFlexible (See on nuget) to test some early features. We can test it here It already contains some cool script customization stuff and support Json syntax.

evaluator.OptionsSyntaxRules.IsNewKeywordForAnonymousExpandoObjectOptional = true;
evaluator.OptionsSyntaxRules.InitializerPropertyValueSeparators = new[] { "=", ":" };
evaluator.OptionsSyntaxRules.InitializerAllowStringForProperties = true;
evaluator.OptionsSyntaxRules.AllowSimplifiedCollectionSyntax = true;

// And we can also use (To do a List<object> in place of a object[]): 
evaluator.OptionsSyntaxRules.SimplifiedCollectionMode = SimplifiedCollectionMode.List;

Take note that it introduce some breaking changes with previous versions and some others breaking changes can still happend until the official 1.5.0.0 release For now there is no documentation for new features