function objectEval(text)
  {
    // eval() breaks when we use it to get an object using the { a:42, b:'x' }
    // syntax because it thinks that { and } surround a block and not an object
    // So we wrap it in an array and extract the first element to get around
    // this.
    // The regex = [start of line][whitespace]{[stuff]}[whitespace][end of line]
    text = text.replace(/\n/g, ' ');
    text = text.replace(/\r/g, ' ');
    if (text.match(/^\s*\{.*\}\s*$/))
    {
      text = '[' + text + '][0]';
    }
    return eval(text);
  }