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Paul King commented on GROOVY-9612:
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I would phrase things differently to what Daniel said. Groovy has never (at
least not since 1.0) supported the syntax:
{code}
println
(
100
)
{code}
This ties back to semicolon being a statement separator in Groovy (not
statement terminator like in Java).
The general rule of parsing is that end of line terminates the statement except
when it wouldn't validly end a statement.
So, this is fine:
{code}
println (
100
)
{code}
But {{println}} on its own could be a property. You can work around this
limitation in various ways, e.g. using a trailing backslash:
{code}
println \
(
100
)
{code}
We do make exceptions to the general rule, e.g. we do lookahead in various
situations including closures, e.g. the above limitations don't exist and
workarounds not needed for:
{code}
def println(Closure c) { println c.call() }
println
{
100
}
{code}
When designing Groovy 3, we looked at whether we could also do lookahead for
brackets. Adding such support would be a breaking change. This is different to
the closure case since lookahead for closures has been around for a long time.
As an example, this code:
{code}
binding.variables.println = 42
println
(
100
)
{code}
prints nothing and returns 100 in all previous Groovy versions. If we supported
the lookahead for brackets, it would print 100 and return null. We haven't been
convinced that such a breaking change and added complexity to the parser would
be justified for marginal extra Java compatibility. It isn't a goal of Groovy
to be 100% Java compatible for all styles, we just try to be very close
whenever we can.
> Should parse parenthesis and bracket after newline correctly
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: GROOVY-9612
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-9612
> Project: Groovy
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: parser
> Affects Versions: 3.0.4
> Reporter: Laurent RICHARD de LAPRADE
> Priority: Major
>
> For example, this should compile correctly. Current groovy parser forces
> coding style format which is not the one we choose when we code Java.
> {code:java}
> import java.io.*;
> import groovy.io.*;
> def dir = new File("C:\\");
> dir.eachFileRecurse
> (
> f
> ->
> println(f.name)
> );
> {code}
> groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: eachFileRecurse for
> class: java.io.File
>
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