[GROOVY-1282] Error message could be improved

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-6
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.3
• Component/s: parser-antlr2
• Environment: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger ; JDK 1.5.0_06 ; Groovy CVS 2006-03-26
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Dr. Russel Winder
• Created: 26/Mar/06 13:35
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 19:13
• Resolved: 27/May/09 03:56

Description

The Groovy script:

class Trial {
final static aString = """Blah"""
static void main ( args ) {
def anotherString = """${aString}"""
}

results in the error message:

org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, ./trial.groovy: 8: unexpected token: null @ line 8, column 1.
1 Error

The error is that there is a missing }.

Issue Links

• depends upon: GROOVY-3099 migrate to antlr3