Gentlemen,
thanks for elucidation; am looking forward to 3 :)
As for the side debate
> (apart from that: Agree, never used that syntax in any language, never missed
> it in Groovy due to functional constructs)
it used to get pretty handy in C; agreed that there's a little point for Groovy
but for perhaps some legacy stuff (which is also how I have happened to bump
into that).
Thanks and all the best,
OC
> On 6 Aug 2018, at 5:11 PM, mg <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote:
>
> 2.5.x does not use the new Parrot parser afaik, the upcoming 3.x and its now
> dormant 2.6.x JDK 7 backport do.
>
> (apart from that: Agree, never used that syntax in any language, never missed
> it in Groovy due to functional constructs)
>
> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
> Von: "Nelson, Erick" <erick.nel...@hdsupply.com>
> Datum: 06.08.18 15:10 (GMT+00:00)
> An: users@groovy.apache.org
> Betreff: Re: multi-declaration does not work in the for loop, groovy 2.4
>
> Same in 2.5.1 from eclipse photon…
>
>
>
> org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup
> failed:
>
> /Users/en032339/Documents/workspace3/script6/src/erick/erick.groovy: 6:
> unexpected token: = @ line 6, column 14.
>
> for (int foo = 0, bar = 0; foo<bar ; foo++ ) {
>
> ^
>
>
>
> 1 error
>
>
>
> …although I’ve never run into this before. Too many groovier ways to do loops
> in groovy.
>
>
>
>
>
> From: "ocs@ocs" <o...@ocs.cz>
> Reply-To: "users@groovy.apache.org" <users@groovy.apache.org>
> Date: Monday, August 6, 2018 at 6:37 AM
> To: "users@groovy.apache.org" <users@groovy.apache.org>
> Subject: multi-declaration does not work in the for loop, groovy 2.4
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
