relaxes maps and lists notation

src/main/java/carpet/script/Context.java

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ public class Context
     public static final int SIGNATURE = 7;
     public static final int LOCALIZATION = 8;
     public static final int LVALUE = 9;
+    public static final int MAPDEF = 10;
 
     public final Map<String, LazyValue> variables = new HashMap<>();
 

src/main/java/carpet/script/Expression.java

@@ -492,6 +492,11 @@ public class Expression
         //assigns const procedure to the lhs, returning its previous value
         addLazyBinaryOperatorWithDelegation("->", precedence.get("def->"), false, (c, type, e, t, lv1, lv2) ->
         {
+            if (type == Context.MAPDEF)
+            {
+                Value result = ListValue.of(lv1.evalValue(c), lv2.evalValue(c));
+                return (cc, tt) -> result;
+            }
             Value v1 = lv1.evalValue(c, Context.SIGNATURE);
             if (!(v1 instanceof FunctionSignatureValue))
                 throw new InternalExpressionException("'->' operator requires a function signature on the LHS");
@@ -1335,11 +1340,18 @@ public class Expression
             return LazyListValue.range(from, to, step);
         });
 
-        addFunction("m", lv ->
+        addLazyFunction("m", -1, (c, t, llv) ->
         {
+            List<Value> lv = new ArrayList<>();
+            for (LazyValue lazyParam : llv) {
+                lv.add(lazyParam.evalValue(c, Context.MAPDEF)); // none type default by design
+            }
+            Value ret;
             if (lv.size() == 1 && lv.get(0) instanceof LazyListValue)
-                return new MapValue(((LazyListValue) lv.get(0)).unroll());
-            return new MapValue(lv);
+                ret = new MapValue(((LazyListValue) lv.get(0)).unroll());
+            else
+                ret = new MapValue(lv);
+            return (cc, tt) -> ret;
         });
 
         addUnaryFunction("keys", v -> {
@@ -2062,7 +2074,7 @@ public class Expression
 
         Tokenizer tokenizer = new Tokenizer(c, this, expression, allowComments, allowNewlineSubstitutions);
         // stripping lousy but acceptable semicolons
-        List<Tokenizer.Token> cleanedTokens = tokenizer.fixSemicolons();
+        List<Tokenizer.Token> cleanedTokens = tokenizer.postProcess();
 
         Tokenizer.Token lastFunction = null;
         Tokenizer.Token previousToken = null;

src/main/java/carpet/script/Tokenizer.java

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public class Tokenizer implements Iterator<Tokenizer.Token>
         this.newLinesMarkers = allowNewLineMakers;
     }
 
-    public List<Token> fixSemicolons()
+    public List<Token> postProcess()
     {
         Iterable<Token> iterable = () -> this;
         List<Token> originalTokens = StreamSupport.stream(iterable.spliterator(), false).collect(Collectors.toList());
@@ -60,9 +60,27 @@ public class Tokenizer implements Iterator<Tokenizer.Token>
                     current.surface = ";";
                     current.type = Token.TokenType.OPERATOR;
                 }
+                if (current.type == Token.TokenType.MARKER)
+                {
+                    // dealing with tokens in reversed order
+                    if ("{".equals(current.surface))
+                    {
+                        cleanedTokens.add(current.morphedInto(Token.TokenType.OPEN_PAREN, "("));
+                        current.morph(Token.TokenType.FUNCTION, "m");
+                    }
+                    else if ("[".equals(current.surface))
+                    {
+                        cleanedTokens.add(current.morphedInto(Token.TokenType.OPEN_PAREN, "("));
+                        current.morph(Token.TokenType.FUNCTION, "l");
+                    }
+                    else if ("}".equals(current.surface) || "]".equals(current.surface))
+                    {
+                        current.morph(Token.TokenType.CLOSE_PAREN, ")");
+                    }
+                }
                 cleanedTokens.add(current);
             }
-            if (current.type != Token.TokenType.MARKER)
+            if (!(current.type == Token.TokenType.MARKER && current.surface.equals("$")))
                 last = current;
         }
         Collections.reverse(cleanedTokens);
@@ -242,7 +260,8 @@ public class Tokenizer implements Iterator<Tokenizer.Token>
             }
             token.type = ch == '(' ? Token.TokenType.FUNCTION : Token.TokenType.VARIABLE;
         }
-        else if (ch == '(' || ch == ')' || ch == ',')
+        else if (ch == '(' || ch == ')' || ch == ',' ||
+                ch == '{' || ch == '}' || ch == '[' || ch == ']')
         {
             if (ch == '(')
             {
@@ -252,17 +271,21 @@ public class Tokenizer implements Iterator<Tokenizer.Token>
             {
                 token.type = Token.TokenType.CLOSE_PAREN;
             }
-            else
+            else if (ch == ',')
             {
                 token.type = Token.TokenType.COMMA;
             }
+            else
+            {
+                token.type = Token.TokenType.MARKER;
+            }
             token.append(ch);
             pos++;
             linepos++;
 
             if (expression != null && context != null && previousToken != null &&
                     previousToken.type == Token.TokenType.OPERATOR &&
-                    (ch == ')' || ch == ',') &&
+                    (ch == ')' || ch == ',' || ch == ']' || ch == '}') &&
                     !previousToken.surface.equalsIgnoreCase(";")
             )
                 throw new ExpressionException(context, this.expression, previousToken,
@@ -376,6 +399,22 @@ public class Tokenizer implements Iterator<Tokenizer.Token>
         public int pos;
         public int linepos;
         public int lineno;
+        public Token morphedInto(TokenType newType, String newSurface)
+        {
+            Token created = new Token();
+            created.surface = newSurface;
+            created.type = newType;
+            created.pos = pos;
+            created.linepos = linepos;
+            created.lineno= lineno;
+            return created;
+        }
+
+        public void morph(TokenType type, String s)
+        {
+            this.type = type;
+            this.surface = s;
+        }
 
         public void append(char c)
         {