From 18e828f17cc3f87728d57e424814df45b5eec7f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Dolan <mu@netsoc.tcd.ie>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:28:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow negated object values without parens. Fixes #247

---
 parser.y       | 4 +++-
 tests/all.test | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/parser.y b/parser.y
index 4c0b6a2..bc7bba9 100644
--- a/parser.y
+++ b/parser.y
@@ -458,7 +458,9 @@ ExpD:
 ExpD '|' ExpD { 
   $$ = block_join($1, $3);
 } |
-
+'-' ExpD {
+  $$ = BLOCK($2, gen_call("_negate", gen_noop()));
+} |
 Term {
   $$ = $1;
 }
diff --git a/tests/all.test b/tests/all.test
index 259cdf2..f50b7eb 100644
--- a/tests/all.test
+++ b/tests/all.test
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ null
 null
 []
 
+{x: -1}
+null
+{"x": -1}
+
 # The input line starts with a 0xFEFF (byte order mark) codepoint
 # No, there is no reason to have a byte order mark in UTF8 text.
 # But apparently people do, so jq shouldn't break on it.
-- 
2.40.0