core evaluate now works without transpiler

packages/core/evaluate.mjs

@@ -24,8 +24,16 @@ export const evalScope = async (...args) => {
   Object.assign(globalThis, ...modules, Pattern.prototype.bootstrap());
 };
 
-function safeEval(str) {
-  return Function('"use strict";return (' + str + ')')();
+function safeEval(str, options = {}) {
+  const { wrapExpression = true, wrapAsync = true } = options;
+  if (wrapExpression) {
+    str = `{${str}}`;
+  }
+  if (wrapAsync) {
+    str = `(async ()=>${str})()`;
+  }
+  const body = `"use strict";return (${str})`;
+  return Function(body)();
 }
 
 export const evaluate = async (code, transpiler) => {
@@ -35,7 +43,9 @@ export const evaluate = async (code, transpiler) => {
   if (transpiler) {
     code = transpiler(code); // transform syntactically correct js code to semantically usable code
   }
-  let evaluated = await safeEval(code);
+  // if no transpiler is given, we expect a single instruction (!wrapExpression)
+  const options = { wrapExpression: !!transpiler };
+  let evaluated = await safeEval(code, options);
   if (!isPattern(evaluated)) {
     console.log('evaluated', evaluated);
     const message = `got "${typeof evaluated}" instead of pattern`;

packages/eval/shapeshifter.mjs

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ const isNote = (name) => /^[a-gC-G][bs]?[0-9]$/.test(name);
 const addLocations = true;
 export const addMiniLocations = true;
 export const minifyStrings = true;
-export const wrappedAsync = true;
+export const wrappedAsync = false; // this is now handled by core evaluate by default
+export const shouldAddReturn = true;
 
 export default (_code) => {
   const { code, addReturn } = wrapAsync(_code);
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ export default (_code) => {
     },
   });
   // add return to last statement (because it's wrapped in an async function artificially)
-  if (wrappedAsync) {
+  if (shouldAddReturn) {
     addReturn(shifted);
   }
   const generated = undisguiseImports(codegen(shifted));
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ ${code}
 })()`;
   }
   const addReturn = (ast) => {
-    const body = ast.statements[0].expression.callee.body; // actual code ast inside async function body
+    const body = wrappedAsync ? ast.statements[0].expression.callee.body : ast;
     body.statements = body.statements
       .slice(0, -1)
       .concat([new ReturnStatement({ expression: body.statements.slice(-1)[0] })]);

packages/eval/test/shapeshifter.test.mjs

@@ -5,15 +5,21 @@ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th
 */
 
 import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
-import shapeshifter from '../shapeshifter.mjs';
+import shapeshifter, { wrappedAsync } from '../shapeshifter.mjs';
 
 describe('shapeshifter', () => {
   it('Should shift simple double quote string', () => {
-    expect(shapeshifter('"c3"')).toEqual('(async()=>{return mini("c3").withMiniLocation([1,0,15],[1,4,19])})()');
-  });
-  it('Should handle dynamic imports', () => {
-    expect(shapeshifter('const { default: foo } = await import(\'https://bar.com/foo.js\');"c3"')).toEqual(
-      '(async()=>{const{default:foo}=await import("https://bar.com/foo.js");return mini("c3").withMiniLocation([1,64,79],[1,68,83])})()',
-    );
+    if (wrappedAsync) {
+      expect(shapeshifter('"c3"')).toEqual('(async()=>{return mini("c3").withMiniLocation([1,0,15],[1,4,19])})()');
+    } else {
+      expect(shapeshifter('"c3"')).toEqual('return mini("c3").withMiniLocation([1,0,0],[1,4,4])');
+    }
   });
+  if (wrappedAsync) {
+    it('Should handle dynamic imports', () => {
+      expect(shapeshifter('const { default: foo } = await import(\'https://bar.com/foo.js\');"c3"')).toEqual(
+        'const{default:foo}=await import("https://bar.com/foo.js");return mini("c3").withMiniLocation([1,64,79],[1,68,83])',
+      );
+    });
+  }
 });

packages/transpiler/transpiler.mjs

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { walk } from 'estree-walker';
 import { isNote } from '@strudel.cycles/core';
 
 export function transpiler(input, options = {}) {
-  const { wrapAsync = true, addReturn = true } = options;
+  const { wrapAsync = false, addReturn = true } = options;
 
   let ast = parse(input, {
     ecmaVersion: 2022,