Return list in a function

[anhnhoktvn]

I expect

data: -> 
  * name: 'item 1'
    rating: 4.8
  * name: 'item 2'
    rating: 4.9

will be converted to

({
  data: function(){
    return [
      {
        name: 'item 1',
        rating: 4.8
      }, {
        name: 'item 2',
        rating: 4.9
      }
    ];
  }
});

but it is converted to:

({
  data: function(){
    ({
      name: 'item 1',
      rating: 4.8
    });
    return {
      name: 'item 2',
      rating: 4.9
    };
  }
});

[rhendric]

Ah, the oft-misunderstood implicit structure asterisk. Though it seems many users disagree with this design decision, it is in fact functioning as documented. The key thing to understand is that * does not create a list; it only separates the two objects from each other. In some contexts like the right-hand side of an assignment, two expressions next to each other at the same level of indentation are implicitly converted to a list. But for obvious reasons, the body of a function is not such a context. See https://github.com/gkz/LiveScript/issues/1055#issuecomment-402785740 for a workaround and links to other duplicate reports of this ‘issue’.