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Paul King commented on GROOVY-11320: ------------------------------------ The parrot parser is treating the expression as (try "script -> inspect CST" in the groovyConsole): {noformat} (castExpression) expression / \ + expressionInParentheses {noformat} We'll have to have a think whether there are any workarounds apart from the obvious _remove the unneeded brackets_. > Unable to resolve class when putting variables into brackets. > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: GROOVY-11320 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-11320 > Project: Groovy > Issue Type: Bug > Components: parser > Affects Versions: 4.0.10, 3.0.20 > Reporter: Philip Markus > Priority: Major > > After migrating from Groovy 2.5 to Groovy 4.0, we experience some strange > parsing behavior. > {code:java} > def foo = "spongebog" > def bar = " squarepants" > (foo) + (bar){code} > The above snippet will yield a parser error "Unable to resolve class foo". > This worked fine in 2.5, but seems to have been broken since 3.0. (Tried it > in Groovy web console) > I couldn't find any hints in the release notes, what might be the cause of > this change and I am not sure what the expression (ClassName) even tries to > perform. After all class names work as constants for their Class instance > (without .class as in Java) anyway, with or without brackets. > We know that those brackets are unnecessary, but for a reason that I am not > aware of, we have lots of such expressions lying around in small snippets. > Note: Our application is written in Java, but allows users to adapt runtime > behavior using Groovy scripts and also is used for expressions in mail > templates. which means we cannot just change the affected code, as they will > still linger around in databases across different installations of our > software. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)