$eval returns empty object if the context value is an empty array

[goulderb]

When $eval is provided an empty array, it always returns empty object.

Example:

$eval("{ 'test': 1 }", [])

Output:

{}

Expected Output:

{
  "test": 1
}

[andrew-coleman]

Looks like a bug, I think

[goulderb]

@andrew-coleman Do you happen to have any areas of the code that you would start looking at to dig into this issue? It's impacting me as I've got quite a few JSONata expressions that use $eval to do some meta-programming style functionality.

I'd be open to contributing a bug fix for this, but I am not really sure where to start.