Yes, that is by design for 2.4.x, you'll have to bring one of the declarations outside the loop or use one of the many internal iteration approaches. The Parrot parser handles that syntax.
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:37 PM ocs@ocs <o...@ocs.cz> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have just bumped into a — presumably — parser error, which causes that a > declaration of more variables is not accepted in a for loop: > > === > 44 */tmp>* /usr/local/groovy-2.4.15/bin/groovy q > org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup > failed: > /private/tmp/q.groovy: 1: unexpected token: = @ line 1, column 13. > for (int foo=0,bar=0;foo<bar;foo++) > ^ > 1 error > 44 */tmp>* /usr/local/groovy-2.4.15/bin/groovy -version > Groovy Version: 2.4.15 JVM: 10.0.1 Vendor: "Oracle Corporation" OS: Mac OS > X > 45 */tmp>* > === > > At the moment alas I can't test in newer groovys, not sure whether the > problem is fixed there or not. > > All the best, > OC > >
