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Paul King commented on GROOVY-7859: ----------------------------------- The corresponding method reference equivalent using the Parrot parser suffer from the same errors: {code} x = 'abc'::bar x = String::length x = String::size {code} This is to be expected given the current implementation. > Erroneous method pointer expressions pass STC > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: GROOVY-7859 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7859 > Project: Groovy > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Static Type Checker > Affects Versions: 2.4.7 > Reporter: Shil Sinha > Assignee: Shil Sinha > > Method pointer expressions are not type checked (with STC enabled). The > following example should not compile for a number of reasons: > {code} > @groovy.transform.TypeChecked > void test() { > def x = 'abc'.&bar //bar is not a String method > x() // groovy.lang.MissingMethodException > x = String.&length //length is a non-static method > x() // java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: object is not an instance of > declaring class > x = String.&size //size is a non-static extension method > x() // java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Class cannot be cast to > java.lang.String > } > test() > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)