Support anonymous entities about data-point HOT 4 CLOSED

Glad you like the idea! Your example should work out of the gate, because anonymous entities will support all the features that current entities have (and we can already use entities within other entities).

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This is a fantastic idea!

Sorry if this is obvious, but what would happen if an anonymous entity tried to refer to a declared entity?

Here's a rough example of the question:

// data-hash.js

module.exports = hash({
  value:  'request:getOrgInfo', // can refer to declared entity?
  mapKeys: {
    reposUrl: '$repos_url',
    eventsUrl: '$events_url'
  }
}) 

// main.js

const dataHash = require('./data-hash')

dataPoint.addEntities({
  'request:getOrgInfo': {
    url: 'https://api.github.com/orgs/nodejs'
  },
  'hash:OrgInfo': dataHash // would this pull the value from the declared entity?
})

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love this idea, my only concern is people abusing this feature and creating nested entities which could potentially end up in a crazy triangle of hell mess :)

I believe the feature adds a lot of value

things to keep in mind:

• do not depend on datapoint instance, should be exposed as a static factory of DataPoint
• think about usage of custom entities
• parse at compile time, so errors happen there and not at run time

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superseded by #129

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