Hi OC,
Not answering the parser question but offering up a slightly different
approach:
def counter() {
for ((n, m) = [1,10] ; n<m ; n++){
println "$n"
}
}
counter()
Cheers,
Duncan
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:00 AM, OC <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> is this a parser bug, or am I overlooking something of importance?
>
> ===
> 17 /tmp> <q.groovy
> def foo() {
> int n=1,m=2; // allright
> println "$n $m"
> }
> def bar() {
> for (int n=1,m=2;n<m;n++) println "$n" // oops
> }
> 18 /tmp> groovy q
> org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup
> failed:
> /private/tmp/q.groovy: 6: unexpected token: = @ line 6, column 13.
> for (int n=1,m=2;n<m;n++) println "$n" // oops
> ^
>
> 1 error
>
> 19 /tmp> groovy -v
> Groovy Version: 2.3.8 JVM: 1.7.0_13 Vendor: Oracle Corporation OS: Mac OS X
> 20 /tmp>
> ===
>
> Note, incidentally, that Java has this right:
>
> ===
> 25 /tmp> <q.java
> class q {
> public static void main(String[] args) {
> for (int n=1,m=2;n<m;n++) System.out.println("-> "+n);
> }
> }
> 26 /tmp> javac q.java && java q
> -> 1
> 27 /tmp>
> ===
>
> Thanks and all the best,
> OC
>
>
